Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux [LWN.net]

Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

Posted Jan 20, 2007 5:46 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
In reply to: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux by rqosa
Parent article: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

>> there's no alternative to manually editing xorg.conf.

> What about "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"?

I don't think it would work - the original xorg.conf was generated by dpkg.
The LCD was mis-detected. (Actually, Mandriva got this one right!)

> For 6.06 and earlier, there's "update-rc.d".

sysv-rc-conf works very well. I don't mind a lack of GUI tools now, but I was glad of them when I was a newbie.

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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

Posted Jan 20, 2007 6:21 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link]

> I don't think it would work - the original xorg.conf was generated by dpkg.
> The LCD was mis-detected.

Do you mean that it wouldn't allow increasing the resolution? When I ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", it offered many different resolutions, most of which were larger than the maximum resolution of my LCD (1024x768). I did tell it to not autodetect the hardware, though, in order to reuse the previously-chosen settings.