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[ILUG] debian beginner questions...

[ILUG] debian beginner questions...

Gary Coady gary at netsoc.tcd.ie
Fri Dec 1 10:56:29 GMT 2000


On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:44:35AM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
>  I've reinstalled my machine in work with Debian (woody). Only the X
> configurator seems busted - it makes a ~root/XF86Config.new file, and
> tries to start up with that - only it makes one with no modelines, so
> breaks. I hand edited the file, and started up X. Then tryed to run the X
> config tool again. It picked up the display, and expected
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to be there. So I copied the XF86Config.new to
> there, and it's getting there. Now the config tool just says "Can't open
> cards database". Any idea what's the story ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Xconfigurator works with
XFree4. There's a tool called dexter which might help, otherwise, there's
always xf86cfg...

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