Switching video cards : "HowTo" ??

[Matt Zimmerman]

(dropping ubuntu-doc)

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 12:13:51PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:52:11AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > dpkg-reconfigure passes "reconfigure" to the .config script, while during
> > upgrades the argument is "configure".
> 
> OK, so would you be happy with always stomping the configuration file with
> reconfiguring (but making a backup), and changing the default when reconfiguring
> to probing, with a flag to explicitly disable it?  That's what would make the
> most sense to me.  (Also, always recreating the file when it's deleted.)

Yes, that sounds about right to me as well.  The configuration file
definitely should be stomped (with a backup made); the user has explicitly
asked us to change it in this case.

I'm trying to think of use cases where we shouldn't probe by default, but
none come to mind.  It should ask first, though, in case probing causes
problems with the user's hardware, so that they can skip it if needed and
still configure manually.

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 - mdz