Clive Menzies wrote:
It's written as a comment in the conf file itself. If you manually modify the conf file dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 won't work until you move the modified file out of the way: # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically # updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Regards Clive
Just to give you the idea of why this is a good thing :-)some years ago when I was using woody, an upgrade of X wiped away any changes in a customly configured XF86Config-4 -- I'm sure the need for these commands is to prevent just that problem
(ow, I meant to write that to the original poster but, anyway, it'll show up in the thread)
regards, Joris