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Re: What is the best Xfree Setup Program?



Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> > I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure
> > wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and
> > server reconfiguration.
> 
> The X installer does not do hardware detection.  Where did you get
> that idea?

It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. 

I don't know why it skips this when reconfiguring under
dpkg-reconfigure, but it does so quite deliberatly:

# if configuring for the first time, ask if user wants to autodetect
if [ -z "$RECONFIGURE" ]; then
  if which get-edid > /dev/null 2>&1; then
...

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