How to Cure Fuzzy Xorg Display?

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:23:04PM -0500, Kenton Brede wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:45:48AM +1000, Daniel Stone (daniel at fooishbar.org) wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Kenton Brede wrote:
> > > I noticed when I did this I had to move my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file out
> > > of the way first and then 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'  
> > 
> > This has changed now; dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg will always, always
> > give you a new configuration file[0], so you don't need to move it out
> > of the way.  It also gets backed up.
> > 
> > [0]: Except when you've made one in the same minute, where it can't
> >      move the current one to xorg.conf.yyyymmddhhss, so it bails out.
> 
> I tried this on my workstation and you are right.  Is this behavior
> brand new?  Approximately a month ago I configured X on my laptop
> (hoary) and I have no backup files present, other than the ones I 
> created.  Perhaps I was using a different configuration tool at the time.

It's a bit more than a month old, I think.  But the entire configuration
handling has been under major renovation for a long time -- check
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/changelog.Debian.gz if you're bored. ;)
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