I've always managed my own XF86Config, and the debian packages have for the most part stayed out of my way. How come now I can't upgrade without answering dozens of questions about my graphics card and monitor etc. I've been stuck at this version for a while since I always C-c the configuration and that dumps me out of the install.
I seem to have 4.2.1-9 installed and am trying to install 4.2.1-12.1: bash-2.05b# apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xserver-common Suggested packages: configlet-frontends The following packages will be upgraded xserver-common xserver-xfree86 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 723 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4639kB of archives. After unpacking 901kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... Configuring Xserver-xfree86 --------------------------- For the X Window System graphical user interface to operate correctly, it is necessary to select a video card driver for the X server. Drivers are typically named for the video card or chipset manufacturer, or for a specific model or family of chipsets. 1. apm 5. cirrus 9. glint 13. imstt 17. neomagic 21. s3 25. sis 29. tseng 33. vmware 2. ark 6. cyrix 10. i128 14. mga 18. newport 22. s3virge 26. tdfx 30. v4l 3. ati 7. fbdev 11. i740 15. mga 19. nv 23. savage 27. tga 31. vesa 4. chips 8. glide 12. i810 16. mga_hal 20. rendition 24. siliconmotion 28. trident 32. vga :-) Select the desired X server driver. ... bash-2.05b# apt-cache show xserver-xfree86 Package: xserver-xfree86 Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 11728 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-12.1 Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt Provides: xserver Depends: xserver-common (>= 4.2.1-10), libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5) Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid, libglide2 (>> 2001.01.26) Conflicts: libxfont-xtt Filename: pool/main/x/xfree86/xserver-xfree86_4.2.1-12.1_i386.deb Size: 4384006 MD5sum: 5bd227698938e9314fa9c802f20a7401 Description: the XFree86 X server ... Package: xserver-xfree86 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 10892 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-9 Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt Provides: xserver Depends: debconf (>> 0.5), xserver-common (>= 4.1.0-10), libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), debconf (>= 0.5) Suggests: discover, mdetect, read-edid Conflicts: libxfont-xtt Description: the XFree86 X server ... -- greg