Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
Angelina Carlton wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at 1400x1050. Some X config files I've

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it > suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great > difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at > 1400x1050. Some X config files I've found (which didn't wo

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
Angelina Carlton wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? ugh, the attachment I sent d

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread [KS]
Angelina Carlton wrote: > Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the >>middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other >>methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? >> > > ugh, the attachment

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the > middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other > methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file? > ugh, the attachment I sent dosent have that resoulution b

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply, and I apologise for not reading the config file > notes properly with regard to overwriting the file. > > I've looked at many web resources on this problem, and I don't know > how I've missed your second link above. It looks excellent -

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Angelina Carlton
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply, and I apologise for not reading the config file > notes properly with regard to overwriting the file. > > I've looked at many web resources on this problem, and I don't know > how I've missed your second link above. It looks excellent - I

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread Doofus
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Doofus wrote: Can someone please tell me what `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` actually does? At the end of the procedure it talks about writing two new configuration files. Where are these files? I'd assumed it was talking about /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but mine

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

2006-03-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Doofus wrote: Can someone please tell me what `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` actually does? At the end of the procedure it talks about writing two new configuration files. Where are these files? I'd assumed it was talking about /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but mine isn't changed in any way. I

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-12 Thread jlquinn
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks again! Now I just need to get my Dlink DWL-G510 WiFi card working and all my dreams will have come true... Check the chipset: do an lspci and report back to the list what it outputs. If it's an Athero

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. > > I had two problems: > 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and > 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below > but misinterpre

RE: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
ian.org Subject: and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?) Clive Menzies wrote: > > It's written as a comment in the conf file itself. If you manually > modify the conf file dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 won't work unt

and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Clive Menzies wrote: It's written as a comment in the conf file itself. If you manually modify the conf file dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 won't work until you move the modified file out of the way: # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically # updated # again, run

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 18:34), Erik Karlin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > > was in /etc/X11. > > > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > > create a new XF86Co

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Karlin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > was in /etc/X11. > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > create a new XF86Config file. > > I did an experiment. I deleted (sa

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" does not saves the new XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11

2004-02-06 Thread VSJ
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I have Debian/unstable on my machine which I recently installed. The > problem is that whenever I try to configure X with > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > > everything is ok, only at the end of the configuration the new > XF86Config-4 is not overwritten in /etc/X11/

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" does not saves the new XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11

2004-02-06 Thread Dave Thorn
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:38:40PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > > everything is ok, only at the end of the configuration the new > XF86Config-4 is not overwritten in /etc/X11/ directory. Is it writing it to /etc/X11/XF86Config instead? -- dave thorn --

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question (solved)

2003-11-13 Thread Jimmy Johansson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:18:11PM +0100, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to > create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. Hi and thank you for all your replies, they helped me indirectly. I read them and then set out to try again.

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Jimmy Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031113 08:16]: > Hi, > > I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to > create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old > XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86. Am I supp

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. So this did _not_ create a new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4