Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 09/30/2007 12:25 PM, Martin Waller wrote:
> duh!
>
> My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use 
> xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty?  I cannot 
> work out what package its in.
>
> Also, in the debian reference manual, at 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xsrvr, it 
> refers to xserver-common-v3 (I think I need this as I have an old matrox 
> card)- I can find no such package in etch - is the ref manual out of 
> date or something? Surely not?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Martin

Any references to XFree86 are outdated if you're using Etch. The Debian 
Reference was written for Sarge (which I'm glad of because I'm still 
using Sarge).

Try this:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg