On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:27:50 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is that recent Xorg upgrades have moved a whole bunch of stuff
> around and therefore need to change xorg.conf appropriately. The first few
> times, it saved my old one and made a new one. Xorg did not work so I simply
> put back the old one after messing up trying to hand merge them.
After this "upgrade", my xorg.conf was missing/deleted/etc. Thankfully
I had a backup of the /etc/X11 directory.
Even then, that file did not work.
I had to search through the deb files to find the program to get a
semi-working xorg.conf, so I could get WindowMaker (which is still
failing) working. I had to settle for KDE.
> Now, it checks and if anything looks "customized", i.e. one uses or might
> have
> used the dri-trunk packages, switched monitors or graphics cards, etc., it
> doe not make the changes.
>
> Most important is that all the executables are now in /usr/bin. The first
> such
> upgrade symlinked the /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin so this did not bork things
> up. Apparantly, modules directories are no longer used so if the changes are
> made, all ModulePaths are simply deleted. Problem is that they may in many
> many cases still be needed. Some FontPaths may also have changed and try and
> find those manually!
There were no notices within synaptic about overwriting/editing/etc the
xorg.conf.
> I think that a "line-by-line" installation utility to straighten all this out
> is in order. It's easy to see that certain module paths exist and are not
> empty. The packager knows where fonts have been moved. That rgb.txt file
> which I still have not successfully accessed, is another line item.
>
> If we are using apt or aptitude, etc., to upgrade Xorg, then we should not
> need to solve a jigsaw puzzle to keep it working :-)
I use synaptic for all upgrades, and nothing was presented.
If "I" as a user are not running the correct script to getting a
correct xorg.conf installed/configured/etc, please let me know the
script name & location.
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