Hi,


Having a problem with something stupid I did with one of my computers running
debian etch. Using the computer primarily to serve 2 sites, a a blog, and a
local LUG site..

Took the drive out of one pc with a slower processor, and put it in a newer pc
I built with an athlon sempron processor and 1 gig ram. Much, Much faster!!!
The obvious problem is, X server no longer starts, as xorg.conf is tailored
for the other computer.

I edited xorg.conf, and changed the device to the name of my video card, which
I copied identically from where it is listed with lspci, and changed the
driver name to trident which is what the card is.

it doesnt work, I know I have to change the screen too, but Im not sure where
to get the correct info to put here. monitor type and such

My question is, is there a utility to run that will re detect my video
hardware, and build a new xorg.conf so I can use x on this computer? Im
going crazy with different combinations of xorg.conf and cant get any to work
correctly!!

thank you.


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I think your problem will solve with this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

El sáb, 02-12-2006 a las 16:51 -0500, steve reilly escribió:
> Hi,
>
>
> Having a problem with something stupid I did with one of my computers running
> debian etch. Using the computer primarily to serve 2 sites, a a blog, and a
> local LUG site..
>
> Took the drive out of one pc with a slower processor, and put it in a newer pc
> I built with an athlon sempron processor and 1 gig ram. Much, Much faster!!!
> The obvious problem is, X server no longer starts, as xorg.conf is tailored
> for the other computer.
>
> I edited xorg.conf, and changed the device to the name of my video card, which
> I copied identically from where it is listed with lspci, and changed the
> driver name to trident which is what the card is.
>
> it doesnt work, I know I have to change the screen too, but Im not sure where
> to get the correct info to put here. monitor type and such
>
> My question is, is there a utility to run that will re detect my video
> hardware, and build a new xorg.conf so I can use x on this computer? Im
> going crazy with different combinations of xorg.conf and cant get any to work
> correctly!!
>
> thank you.
>
>
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steve reilly wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Having a problem with something stupid I did with one of my computers running
> debian etch. Using the computer primarily to serve 2 sites, a a blog, and a
> local LUG site..
>
> Took the drive out of one pc with a slower processor, and put it in a newer pc
> I built with an athlon sempron processor and 1 gig ram. Much, Much faster!!!
> The obvious problem is, X server no longer starts, as xorg.conf is tailored
> for the other computer.
>
> I edited xorg.conf, and changed the device to the name of my video card, which
> I copied identically from where it is listed with lspci, and changed the
> driver name to trident which is what the card is.
>
> it doesnt work, I know I have to change the screen too, but Im not sure where
> to get the correct info to put here. monitor type and such
>
> My question is, is there a utility to run that will re detect my video
> hardware, and build a new xorg.conf so I can use x on this computer? Im
> going crazy with different combinations of xorg.conf and cant get any to work
> correctly!!
>
> thank you.
>
>
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

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On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:08, Igor Guerrero Fonseca wrote:
> I think your problem will solve with this:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>


hi,

thank you. I think im making a step in the right direction. I tried that but
got an error message........
"xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
customized".

Do you know is there a way to FORCE it?


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sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg --force

El sáb, 02-12-2006 a las 17:30 -0500, steve reilly escribió:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:08, Igor Guerrero Fonseca wrote:
> > I think your problem will solve with this:
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> >
>
>
> hi,
>
> thank you. I think im making a step in the right direction. I tried that but
> got an error message........
> "xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> customized".
>
> Do you know is there a way to FORCE it?
>
>
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On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:53, you wrote:



> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg --force


Thank you Igor,



how frustrating!!

I tried the above and get the same error message

not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
customized".


I also tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg


and got the same error message

not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
customized".


It seems to me when you give the command to FORCE! it would DO just THAT?
Why would it give the same error message?

On Saturday 02 December 2006 15:15, steve reilly wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:53, you wrote:
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg --force
>
> Thank you Igor,
>
>
>
> how frustrating!!

Indeed! That is a bug.

> I tried the above and get the same error message
>
> not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> customized".
>
>
> I also tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
>
> and got the same error message
>
> not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> customized".
>
>
> It seems to me when you give the command to FORCE! it would DO just THAT?
> Why would it give the same error message?

I just renamed my xorg.conf to xorg.conf.org and ran dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg and a new xorg.conf was created.

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:30:59PM -0500, steve reilly wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:08, Igor Guerrero Fonseca wrote:
> > I think your problem will solve with this:
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> >
>
>
> hi,
>
> thank you. I think im making a step in the right direction. I tried that but
> got an error message........
> "xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> customized".
>
> Do you know is there a way to FORCE it?

/usr/bin/dexconf
man dexconf

I wish this was documented somewhere. Someone on the lists pointed it
out to me when I had the same problem.

Doug.




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