X conf - way too many screens.

[Erast Benson]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:57 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> I know this is a Debian thing, however...The other day I installed
> Dapper for someone and when they took it home of course their display
> didn't work.  They needed to run dpkg-reconfigure on the X server.  
> 
> I sat down and took screen shots of the steps necessary to get this
> running...wait for it...30 yes 30 different screens just to get X
> running.
> 
> I'm really hoping something can be done for Edgy or Edgy+1 because this
> is **way** too much information for a new user to absorb.

I think it is a valid concern... and dpkg-reconfigure is not a right way
to go. Instead we need to make built-in "X -configure" way to be as
automated/reliable as possible. In Nexenta, this is default way to do
initial Xorg configuration and it works quite well.

> -- 
> George Farris   farrisg at mala.bc.ca
> Malaspina University-College
> 
> "Giving up Windows is like kicking a drug habit...."
> "No, it's more like leaving the Titanic for an Ice Breaker."
> 
> 
-- 
Erast