Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:02:45AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > The dpkg-reconfigure script needs to write a new xorg.conf if the file has > > been customized. A user in #debian reported that this failed on his system, > > and it made it difficult for him to automagically adapt to the new paths > > for modular. This will provide a manual easy way out of this dilemma, > > easing future support. > > As long as it writes it somewhere OTHER than on top of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, > please.
The standard thing to do is to observe dpkg's default behavior, which depending on how you have configured dpkg is to save the new configuration in xorg.conf.dpkg-new or the old one in xorg.conf.dpkg-old See #374583. Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * if i remove my xorg.conf and run dpkg-reconfigure, no new file created In addition to removing xorg.conf, in 1:7.0.22, you may have to also perform the following: sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" See #374578. You will probably also have to perform the following: sudo vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.postinst # Comment out the following line as well as matching else and endif. # if [ -z "$UPGRADE" ] || dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "1:7.0.14"; then -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
