RE: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

[Ed Young <eddythejekyll@gmail.com>]

Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution.  

I had two problems: 
1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and
2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below
but misinterpreted it )

I had been changing the config but didn't realize that it wasn't being
updated. 
 
Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working
and all my dreams will have come true...

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Joris Huizer [mailto:jorishuizer@planet.nl] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:33 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)


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


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