Toes in the Ubuntu waters..

[Eric Cyr]

better worded than I thought to make it :P

On 8/21/07, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/21/07, Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca> wrote:
> > Eric Cyr wrote:
> > > tried 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' yet?
> >
> >    Forgive me.  I come from the SLS --> SlackWare --> RedHat world, and
> > don't know any of the special Debian command-line incantations ;-)
> >
> >    I ran this and it brings back memories of manual configuration from
> > the early 1990's.  I aborted the process before it mangled my xorg.conf
> > file.
> >
> >    Thanks for the suggestion, however.  I think I'll stick to my easier
> > 'vi xorg.conf' for now :-)
>
>
> *) make a copy of your xorg.conf file
> *) do that dpkg-reconfigure command and answer the questions it throws
> at you as best as you can (or use whatever defaults it propose)
> *) at the end of it, you will get a new xorg.conf file.  Compare it to
> your previous one to see what the reconfigure did to it.
> *) try that new xorg.conf.  It it works better...you're in business.
> If not, copy back your copy of your original  xorg.conf and go back to
> your vi session as originally planned :)
>
> That's what I would do personally.  It doesn't cost you much to try,
> beside 10 minutes and 2 reboots.
>
>
> Daniel
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