On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:44:14PM -0500, michael hast wrote:
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> Thank you, Paul! That's exactly the push I needed. I went to a
> root terminal and did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and it brought up
> the configuration thingy. I went through step-by-step, and there were
> questions that it hadn't asked me in the first few installs. Once all
> was said and done, I rebooted and I'm up now. That was really quick and
> simple, and it sounded like you didn't think it would work even when you
> suggested it. Put that one on the books for future reference! I need
> to xfer the files I've got on my other hd so I can have it blank and
> ready to reinstall in another machine tomorrow, and now I'm not afraid
> of having to reinstall here. That's great!
I haven't had much luck reconfiguring the X server this way
(dpkg-reconfigure), even though that's what it's for. That's why I was
skeptical. But I'm glad it worked for you.
Paul
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