[Sderby] Re: Desktops

[Steve Tickle]

Tim Retout writes: 

> 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.

Actually, the penny dropped after I hit "send". I'm using XFree86 not xorg. 
I see the xorg debs are part of the unstable packages. I configured this 
machine from the current netinst CD image so I don't know how it might have 
installed Woody stuff but I'm just going to have a go at installing the xorg 
files now. 

I'll see what becomes of it.
-- 
Steve