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Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??



On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:01:49PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> Configure X by hand?  Why?  The Debian X packages have a very
> sophisticated configuration system which walks you through the
> configuration.  With a little googling, you'll even find that installing
> "hotplug", "mdetect" and "read-edid" before X will enable it to
> auto-detect most everything for you anyway.

Well now isn't that nice, and here I've been using debian since dec 1998,
and I didn't know about those packages!!! :(

Installed now.

Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's
because it wasn't run on boot yet.  Will file bugs reports as I identify
them. :)



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