Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

[André Allavena <andre@cs.cornell.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006, 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
> 
> 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.

Mmm. I don't fancy writing one from scratch though. (New machine,
fresh install).
Suggestions? 


Thanks
André

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André Allavena
Post-Doctoral Fellow
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, ON, Canada