X re-configuration

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Feb 28 00:42:15 UTC 2005


On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:20:28PM -0600, Willie McKemie wrote:
> I have screwed up my X configuration.  Searching about, I find that
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
> should fix me up.  However, it doesn't.  It seems to create a new 
> /etc/XF86Config rather than /etc/XF86Config-4.  At any rate, "startx" 
> doesn't bring X up.
> 
> The install X configuration worked OK, can someone tell me how to do 
> that again without having to re-install?

sudo sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum'
XF86FORCEPROBE=yes sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
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