[Sderby] Desktops

[Tim Retout]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 23:22 +0100, Steve Tickle wrote:
> On Sunday, October 15, 2006 18:21:24, Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk> wrote:
> > Failing that, it's not that tricky to just edit the xorg.conf.
> 
> I've been editing the xf86config file rather than xorg.conf. Which file 
> has precedence?

You've been editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? Hmm. According to ``man
xorg.conf'', that file isn't listed (although I seem to recall there
would have been some sort of upgrade mechanism - a symlink?). Anyway, I
would think you can just move everything to xorg.conf without side
effects - provided you really are using xorg and not xfree86 (i.e.
you've not dug out the Woody isos).

Come to think of it, I see that I misread what you were doing battle
with. I thought you were generating a config with the old xf86config(1):
http://www.xfree86.org/current/xf86config.1.html

If you hit debconf and dpkg-reconfigure hard enough, it can mostly
generate everything without problems (in my experience). You would want
to run it again if you changed to the binary-only nVidia drivers.

-- 
Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>