Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 08:47:59PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:57:26AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > With current Hoary, it's simpler, right?  This definitely deserves a short
> > how-to, though.
> 
> ... no.  But the variable name changed.

It should be simpler.  Perhaps XORG_FORCE_PROBE should ignore the md5sum
check.  It makes a backup anyway, no?

> This is a lot of insanity inherited from Debian, and while some parts of it are
> utter crap (for instance, if you delete xorg.conf, it will not get reinstated --
> wtf?), but I like some parts.  If you change xorg.conf, your changes will be
> respected and it will not get overwritten.  If there's a way to tell if we're
> running through dpkg-reconfigure or just reconfiguring through an upgrade,
> though, it might be good to stomp the config file regardless, because this is
> basically the only question I *ever* field about xorg's debconfiscation.

dpkg-reconfigure passes "reconfigure" to the .config script, while during
upgrades the argument is "configure".

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 - mdz