Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

[PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote:
> Chris writes:
> > I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no breakage
> > in unstable use their systems for anything other than a console log in.
>
> I run Unstable on my workstation and have not had breakage for years.
> However, I do not blindly upgrade every day.  I follow debian-devel,
> selectively upgrade individual packages, and occasionally do a general
> upgrade when everything seems ok.
>
> I also use neither Gnome nor KDE.
> --
> John Hasler

Well, ok.  Do you print, do you burn CDs, do you transfer photos from your 
camera?  If you do, and on top of that in KDE (gasp!), you will have had 
breakage in the last six months on several occasions.

I think what you are saying is that if your are very carefull (read lots of 
lists), and if you don't use a desktop manager, *then* you won't have 
breakage for years. Ok.  I can accept that.

Chris
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Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

[PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 16:52, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:34:11 -0400
>
> André Allavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg asks me a few questions, but doesn't
> > write anything to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> >
> > Where does the configuration gets writen?
> >
> > Running Debian unstable (well, trying to install, really)
> >
> > Thanks
> > André
>
> Run the command:
>
> dexconf -o /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Ive also been having real trouble getting a clean new xorg.conf setup using 

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

even with the dexconf command you suggest and removing /etc/X11/X I seem to 
put some remnants from my old xfree86 setup (screen resolutions) in 
xorg.conf.

I have a different monitor and video card now and want to start from scratch - 
only dpkg-reconfigure won't let me.  The xorg.conf file says something about 
using information from debconf.  Where is this information stored or how can 
I tell dpkg-reconfigure not to use it.

Chris