Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

[Scott Lair <plair@mailzone.com>]

Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:34 -0400, André Allavena wrote:
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me a few questions, but doesn't
> > write anything to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > 
> > Where does the configuration gets writen?
> 
> Same problem here.
> 
> "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" asks questions and then doesn't modify
> xorg.conf.  Delete xorg.conf, and it doesn't create a new one.  Use
> md5sum so it thinks the file hasn't been modified, and still it doesn't
> modify it.
> 
> It seems that the dpkg-reconfigure command is useless for xorg...  Now I
> just modify xorg.conf manually.
> 
> > Running Debian unstable (well, trying to install, really)
> 
> I'm running Debian Etch on amd64.
> 
yep,

rm /etc/X11/X

then rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg 

should do it