Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

[Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:55 -0400, Scott Lair wrote:
> 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

Okay, I did "mv /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/X.bak" and then "dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg".  /etc/X11/xorg.conf was not modified.