auto X server reconfig??

[Florian Diesch]

drew at technteach.com wrote:

> I have 90 recycled computers I need to setup using Edubuntu.
> There are several apps to install that are not in any repository
> I know of.  So I have to install them the old fashioned way.
> But I don't want to do it 90 times.  So I need to copy the
> disk image after I have done all the installs.

Create your own repository. 
Maybe have a look at cfengine, it greatly helps when maintaining more
than just a few boxes.

> But X just says, I couldn't start, would you like to look
> at the log file and figure out how to fix the configuration?
>
> Older versions of X on other platforms, had a program to
> probe the hardware and generate a config file.  The 
> Edubuntu installer does this nicely, so there is probably
> one semewhere but I can't find it.

Try
 X -configure


   Florian
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