[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Jeff Hubbs]

This is interesting to read because I just put Ubuntu 8.04 on a quite 
new mobo with built-in Radeon and wound up with a blank screen.  It 
improved things to let the livecd boot all the way and then hit the 
"install" icon on the desktop - I got a useless scrambled screen - but 
it all sorted out when I renamed xorg.conf to get it out of the way and, 
ta-da, working X. 

Now my issue is that I am supposed to add a section to an xorg.conf that 
I don't even have in order to support a Wacon pen tablet. 

While the livecd was up, I copied off the apparently working xorg.conf 
so that I could re-use it, but I'm concerned that it doesn't know 
anything about the proprietary Radeon driver that Synaptic prompted me 
to let it install.

- Jeff

JK wrote:
> Brian Pitts wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>     
>>> No,  we are working on doc at 1024x768 and a larger screen area would
>>> benefit us.  In Xubuntu all we could choose was 1024x768.  We removed a
>>> tube and replaced with LCD.  I downloaded the config from my system to
>>> this one since they are almost identical.  I then looked up the LCD spec
>>> and hand edited the xorg.conf.  Nothing new for me.  I did this back in
>>> 1995.  It was the only way then.  Question is why did they remove the
>>> CLI version and is there a replacement?
>>>       
>> There's a trend in Xorg development towards autodetection instead of 
>> configuration.
>>     
>
> That sounds like a good trend.  I suspect few things drive
> people away from FOSS OS's faster than rebooting after an
> install and staring at a 640x480 desktop.
>
> -- JK
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