what's the script to install/configure X?

[David Williamson]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:38 -0500, Rick Berger wrote:
> Just tried my first installation of Ubuntu, forgot my video card type, 
> so I did an Alt-F2 to login and did a "lspci", but then couldn't get 
> back to configuration script. So rebooted and I selected the wrong video 
> card. System re-downloaded all the packages again, this surprized me and 
> someone might want to check into it. Altough everything installed, I 
> need to configure X. What's the script to do this?

I'm not sure what the best or official way to do it is, but I've learned
since messing with ubuntu that one way to do it is:

as root or sudo-ing in a terminal:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

I just had to do that today when I tried some different video cards.

HTH --

david williamson