On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:15:57PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson 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 [...] > > 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.
Wouldn't "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" be sufficient, without needing to go extremes of purging and re-installing? -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
