installing a new video card, ouch

[Brian Craft]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:21:34AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > Even more odd, it didn't appear to change the config file at all. None
> > of the things I entered ended up in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Does it
> > save it somewhere else?
> did you ever edit this file manually ? 
> no automated tool in debian based systems will overwrite this file once
> you changed it manually....

Yes, that must be it. I followed the binary driver howto to test the ati
driver (which didn't work). Too bad reconfigure doesn't issue a warning
if it's going to discard all of the input.

b.c.