Re: graphic card problems

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

James Hosken wrote:

> I think you may have found some thing. I've borrowed and put the machine
> a old s3 graphics card. After running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> and then looking in the log to see i810 still being flagged up it was
> clear the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 isn't updating the config 
> file.
>
> I moved XF86Config-4 to XF86Config-4.old and ran dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xfree86, now looking at the logs I get a different error;
>
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
>
> I have looked ing /etc/X11 and there isn't a new XF86Config-4 file.
> What do I need to do now to get this file back working under
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86?
You probably need to restore your XF86Config-4.old file to XF86Config-4, 
and then at the top of that file are some instructions to get 
dpkg-reconfigure to start affecting it again (name it something 
specific, run md5sum against it, etc).

(I've sent this to the list instead of to you, so that you'll have the 
benefit of more eyes looking at the problem, and future searchers may 
benefit from finding this info in the archives.)

--
Kent