This one time, at band camp, Andrew Bennetts wrote: >On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:15:57PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> 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?
That will default to the previous selected values rather than attempt to work it out from scratch. -- [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
