[plug] What is debian version of Xconfigurator or XF86Setup

Buddrige, David BuddrigeD at logica.com
Fri Jun 14 14:18:58 WST 2002


thanks all who replied.   Will give these ideas a shot and let u all know
how it goes. 8-)

cheers

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima [mailto:tony at cantech.net.au]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 12:21 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] What is debian version of Xconfigurator or XF86Setup


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, James Bromberger wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:01:41PM +0800, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> > > I've loaded Debian onto my laptop, but have not yet been able to get X
> > > working.  I cannot find how to perform a configuration of X; in Redhat
you
> > > simply ran Xconfigurator which provided all the prompts.  With
slackware you
> > > use XF86Setup.  Could someone enlighten me as to the equivilent under
> > > Debian?
> > 
> > anXious, is what you're looking for (from xviddetect) or if you've
running
> > woody/sid on fairly std. hardware and you're happy to let debconf have a
go
> > try: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
>  
> 
> dexconf? I thought that was the new one.... (ie, similar to debconf, but
for 
> X)

Hmmm didn't know about it, but as it turns out:
	"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" more or less equates to dexconf.

Yours Tony

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