Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > I imagined so, but I was trying to understand why dpkg-reconfigure > > wouldn't be enough to fully perform the necessary hardware detection and > > server reconfiguration. > > The X installer does not do hardware detection. Where did you get > that idea?
It does if you have read-edit, mdetect, and discover installed. I don't know why it skips this when reconfiguring under dpkg-reconfigure, but it does so quite deliberatly: # if configuring for the first time, ask if user wants to autodetect if [ -z "$RECONFIGURE" ]; then if which get-edid > /dev/null 2>&1; then ... -- see shy jo
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