This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote: >On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 02:43, Rob Weir wrote: > >> Or let your computer figure it out for itself: >> >> $ apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid >> $ dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common >> $ apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common >> >> The defaults should match your installed hardware, so hitting enter >> several hundred thousand times should get you a working X configuration. > >Do you want to give us a hint what this actually means. Anything with >"force" and package management demands an explanation and the risks >involved.
In this case, it means 'forcibly remove these packages because i'm about to reinstall them so i think i know what i'm doing.' What Rob's suggesting is install the magical extra dependencies that the X installer can use to help work out some sensible defaults for the machine being installed on. Once discover, mdetect and read-edid are installed, his method purges xserver-xfree86 and xfree86-common without worrying that many thousands of packages depend on them, and then reinstalling them so their installation scripts can use the newly installed discover, etc, and you'll be given a set of sensible defaults to which you can just press enter during the configuration. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
