HELP Xserver cannot start

[Derek Broughton]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> On Fr, 2005-09-16 at 15:43 -0400, wgscott wrote:
>> 
>> md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum
> 
>> I did the reinstall, and was prompted for this afterwords.  That should
>> have been run automatically as part of the security update, IMHO.  I
>> think the average non-geek would have been up the creek.
> the average non-geek doesnt/shouldnt edit configuration files, if you
> dont fiddle with them they will get regenerated cleanly.
> if you did, the packaging system will respect that and not touch it.
> there is a huge warning in the header of xorg.conf that describes that,
> i would assume the average geek who edits such a file is careful enough
> to read such a warning ;)

That's a little disingenuous.  Sooner or later, ime, you _have_ to modify
the xorg.conf file.  The average non-geek ends up taking something that
someone gives him on a newsgroup like this and plugging it in.  The
instructions for how to do that and _still_ get automatic updates are a
little too vague for the "average non-geek".
-- 
derek