Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?
S D wrote:
> --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>>> It appears that video card configuration was
>> removed from
>>>> dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Has anything replaced
>> it? How can one
>>>> reconfigure video card in lenny?
>>> It's supposed to be automagic now, built into xorg
>> itself.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, "Xorg -configure"
>> should give you a starting point
>> for xorg.conf. Further customizing has to be done with
>> your favorite
>> text editor.
>
> I'm trying to resolve a specific issue that appeared after upgrade from etch to lenny, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515840.
>
> In etch the video card was configured using dpkg-reconfigure and it was working marvelously. In lenny it's all screwed up and dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to reconfigure the video card. It's simply not clear for what needs to be customized to get it working.
>
> Thanks
I use Testing. I think I hit that situation when the change occurred.
The solution, at least for me, at that time was to just rename
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to something else and restart gdm. Xorg then, not
finding any xorg.conf, creating a new file which, IIRC, seemed to work
right out of the box.
But I understand your situation. The earlier ncurses dialog for
configuring the xserver had more information than the present method,
whatever that is.
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