X re-configuration

[Willie McKemie]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:42:15AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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

root at ubuntu-sff:~ # sh -c 'md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum'
root at ubuntu-sff:~ # XF86FORCEPROBE=yes sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
<don't know what the heck I'm doing here, but did it anyway>
<the dialog all seemed reasonable>
root at ubuntu-sff:~ # startx&
[1] 12810
root at ubuntu-sff:~ # Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority
Using authority file /root/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X: Success

giving up.
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

So, I'm not there yet.  Thanks for your attention.

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