Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

[Scott Lair <plair@mailzone.com>]

Owen Heisler wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
dunno,

I am running etch amd64 on two different machines and recently
manually updated xorg.conf, then remembered about reconfigure,
but of course did not work.  Later read somewhere that deleting
X will fix it and sure enough worked both times.  Maybe moving X
doesnt work since it is just a link.

Did any of the other solutions suggested work?

good luck