On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: | | d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. | d> | Why? | | d> Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade. | | Ok and how do I do this?
When I installed X4 (install, not upgrade) recently debconf asked me a bunch of questions, then generated a config file. The config file is named /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by default so that you can have simultaneous X3 and X4 installs. With X4 the config is built-in, you don't need a separate program. Run "X -configure" from a console (you might need the full path to X, I'm not sure) and it will autoprobe and generate the file. This didn't quite work for me on one machine (el-cheapo SiS6326 card). I got a config file, but it didn't work. I manually edited the generated config file to have the same options as my old X3 config file, and everything worked fine. HTH, -D
