installing a new video card, ouch

[Brian Craft]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
>  Even if it will, it will leave you in text mode (because all cards can
> do VESA framebuffer;-) then you can login and type: sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Wow, that was painful. "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" practically
asks you to echo the entire config file. Everything from picking a
driver, to entering the "Files" section, to selecting every module that
should be loaded.

Pretty odd, considering the original install did all of this without
asking one question.

Even more odd, it didn't appear to change the config file at all. None
of the things I entered ended up in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Does it
save it somewhere else?

The result was X still wouldn't start. At that point I just copied the
config file and manually edited the driver and screen sections.

b.c.