Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:24:53AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:17:21PM -0500, Will Backman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:42 -0800, Brian Craft wrote:
> > > I recently did the same thing. The problem was that I'd manually
> > > modified the config file sometime previously. The reconfigure tool keeps
> > > an md5 of the file and won't overwrite it if it has been manually
> > > changed. However it doesn't warn you before discarding your inputs.
> > 
> > One of the biggest pains of the debconf system.  I don't like having
> > intermediate formats for my configuration files.  It reminds me of
> > sendmail and M4.
> 
> This isn't the fault of debconf (which is often incorrectly blamed for
> this sort of thing). It's the fault of packages that use debconf.
> Debconf was never intended to become an intermediate format for
> configuration files, or anything like it.

And in this particular instance, the XFree86/X.Org Debconf is rather
psychopathic and difficult to understand.