dpkg-reconfigure not doing what I remember

[Derek Broughton]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> Used to be that when I did
> 
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> , I'd get a prompt asking me how much
> detail I wanted in my X configuration.
> I'd answer "high," and would then get
> all sorts of lovely questions -- among
> which was the resolution to which I
> wanted to set my monitor/card.
> 
> Now I'm not getting these prompts. Which
> is irritating, because somehow my
> monitor/card just started displaying
> things at 800x600 for mysterious
> reasons.
> 
> Anyone know how to get to the
> resolution-configuration screen?

dpkg-reconfigure doesn't re-ask all questions, by default.  I can never
remember wether you need "dpkg-reconfigure -plow"
or "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh" to get all questions, but try the man page :-)

-- 
derek