Is there something like the old XF86Setup package out there? Text mode?

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 17:12 -0400, Justin wrote:
> Does 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' not work any more?
> 
> How about nvidia-xconfig?
> 
> Worst case, grab an Arch FTP ISO. It has an excellent xorg.conf
> creator.
> 
> Use /arch/setup to configure your network interface
> pacman -Sy xorg hwd
> hwd -x
> Xorg -configure
> 
> That will give you two different xorg.conf files to try.
> 
> You will want to change the drivers from vesa whenever you import the
> file to ubuntu.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:50 PM, J. Michael Morse
> <mmorse757 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Mark Greenwood
>         <fatgerman at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>                 On Thursday 19 March 2009 07:04:10 Ric Moore wrote:
>                 > This new scheme of xorg.conf just ain't
>                 > cutting it, so I'll hand edit it, if I have to.
>                 
>                 
>                 You're right.. when it works it's good but when it
>                 doesn't... you can try hand editing but I found it
>                 ignores everything you tell it.
>                 
>                 What others said.. switch distros to one that still
>                 uses config files you can edit.
>                 
>          
>          
>         What I have done in the past as a last resort is use a LiveCD
>         distro, and then either email the xorg.conf file to myself or
>         copy the xorg.conf file to a USB drive (or floppy).  Load the
>         distro you actually want to use, and then in text mode, switch
>         out the xorg.conf files.

<bumps head> I coulda had a V-8! Sure, I just rebooted with the install
DVD in the drive and ran the live session. Everything worked. So, I
mounted the /dev/sda1 hard drive partition to /mnt and then copied the
Live session xorg.conf file to the /mnt/etc/X11/xorg.conf and rebooted.
I MOSTLY got a working mouse. X flashed a couple of times and barfed
again. So, I'm just re-installing again. If that doesn't work, I'll try
CentOS which is pretty lean and mean, but then I'm back to the rpm world
and I have learned to love the .deb scheme of things. Nah, some of this
rocket science is out of hand. Especially when old timers can't help
newbies, as even we have no clue what they've done to things this month.
That makes for short tempers. :) Ric
 

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