On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:44:35 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 ?
Sounds like you're using xf86cfg, the same thing happened to me. Try using
dexter, but move your old X3 and your new X4 config files out of /etc/X11
or it'll get confused and may try to create an X3 config file for you.
> So far, I really like debian. It asks a lot of questions, but that means
> less brain dead defaults. It installs exim, instead of sendmail
> (human-readable config file!). It's a huge amount better than it used to
> be. And I love apt-get (and Mr Rynne's FTP server, of course)!
dpkg-reconfigure debconf will let you change what level of questions you
want to see as well as what user-interface you want to see. This only works
for packages that use debconf for configuration of course - but that's most
of them in debian.
Martin.
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