<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>  <TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign="top"> <DIV align="left"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Is there a way to rerun the discovery/configuration of CD/DVD/HDs. I added a second DVD drive, GDM runs OK run when I log in XF86 dies after a couple of seconds (i.e. it douse not really startup).</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This would also be great as user would not have to worry too much about technical stuff after adding hardware.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Ben</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@canonical.com> 10/01/04 11:11am >>></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hash: SHA1</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Mark Cooke wrote:</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> Be sure to have: laptop-detect. discover1, xresprobe and mdetect</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> installed.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| I have removed laptop-detectm (as I never use laptops, or is this</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| name deceiving?) '</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">That's ok.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> Keep a copy of xserver-xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu22_i386.deb If</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> you installed from cdrom it should be in /var/cache/apt/archive,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> otherwise grab it from the network and put it somewhere.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> there are several ways know to rerun autodetection, but i will</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> give you the one i usually use to test the package and simulate a</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> fresh install.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|> apt-get --purge remove xserver-xfree86</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| but surley just running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (and maybe</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| renaming the old XF86Config-4, just incase), would do the job</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| instead? (as this is still running the post-install script).</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">No. dpkg-reconfigure will not autoprobe hardware and if you rename the</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">config you will endup without a new one.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">(this is a long policy explanation that i will save for more curious</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">people ;))</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| Sorry, my original post sould of said 'xserver-xfree86', rather</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">| than x86-xserver, I was tired and it was late.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">|</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">No problem. People that maintains XFree86 have special mind powers to</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">enter users mind :P</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Fabio</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">- --</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><user> fajita: step one</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><fajita> Whatever the problem, step one is always to look in the error</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">log.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><user> fajita: step two</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><fajita> When in danger or in doubt, step two is to scream and shout.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">iQIVAwUBQV0tRVA6oBJjVJ+OAQLCbQ//R9ftDfE2wEd4kCSWE+h6viB88NyB1rX/</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Lv4m9y60IF7KwZI4vtTXUT5j8zrmAfGatgDYcAyA8NRfyidLlPC97NkvRU60kqis</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">+A+JfG18pLaJXUhrlYyXSgpknhqfrfBV7+qsZqcHdMZj0k73AHlt4l0p8m1Hy14Y</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">cYymvNYkkPgve6E10m2UqULSaPAFwbmJ5j7Ha/9Dddj6nvhUrpOYBnGnEGlvv9R7</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">w7cypqbp2SyUK4c1xf1Yapezgz6hWWuR2IHgiyUwOUH5qVOX4z6m3iTa2wgtqDbS</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">FG3ZKbf6m3KLU9E0Azd0Td2D+6YztaM7J69D5Jq5TSSgWhgFv9XITgJPFtkbltxV</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">/N2llTWv4SRKKlo1UbwTNyK+jplB57oo3xrMf2DhP1WKjN7ELvAPuiXR1JioY15Y</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">cmVrV5QIFy28OwdLC8fnTWm4k8f6ri017dE01RRZEQKXf4e9aSP0A/7dUK/qKgw+</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ag1ntfbxofYLChAzVaiZixoLzKBRdubQ3Acker/ltt8+LGsiDAsTy3Wl5zJG2StL</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">wBVDwFRLbwsTWNpwRInacIb70D6JO2AvTgfj9dkiQCZ06eDr6C765BqaWyL5s5aV</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">WEQ4lwVVMa34XUka8CTdQtFY0xfKWpHD9W9g2zwYXPVNOAHDtJjkAcFYAqmhn/p4</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">n2nLE51Sgyw=</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">=llLe</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">-- </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ubuntu-users mailing list</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________________________________________________</font></div> <div> </div> <BR> ______________________________________________________________________<BR> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. 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