Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Shashank Ashtikar wrote:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 is the command you are looking for. > But AFAIK In knoppix 3.2 the configure script has a problem that is, > it does not show the description text during the reconfiguring. This is > so because of the "xserver-xfree86.templates" file not being in proper shape. > to fix this cd to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ directory and then open the above > mentioned file in this file you will find numerous sections mentioned as follows > > <Example> > Template: xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options > Type: string > _description: Please select your keyboard options. > For the X server to handle your keyboard as you desire, keyboard options > may be entered. Available options depend on which XKB rule set was > previously selected. > </Example> > > In these sections you have to remove the preceding underscore mark from > description tag do this for every _description and for _choices line also > don't change anything else. Best would be to backup the file before you begin. > > Once you do all this then dpkg-reconfigure would rock for you. Do this and > then restart xserver by saying /etc/init.d/kdm restart. > > Hope this solves your problem. yes it did, many thanks :) regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast. Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
