Hi Jude On Mon, Oct 08, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I figured installing a desktop environment using tasksel and installing > orca with all dependencies should work with debian. Wrong. When I > rebooted the system, I find that the desktop environment won't come up > because /etc/X11/xorg.conf isn't fully and correctly built. The debian > way to solve this problem is to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and > answer the questions. Unfortunately dpkg-reconfigure runs a utility > called dexconf and that utility will not rewrite the /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file under any circumstances I've been able to figure out. I sent a copy > of a typescript output 14K long to a friend and also debian-user mailing > list and nobody so far has a clue why what's happening is happening. > Another contact I have may be willing to check this one out and put in > some good values for me but if that fails it's time to enter some bugs. > Short of that, I may be able to install ubuntu on this computer and get it > talking then copy the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ubuntu creates and perhaps > use it in the debian system. The trouble is that debian doesn't want to use the configure tool to write a file that has been modified by the admin. Nice of it eh? There is a hash of the file in /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum If you remove this file it should create the new one when you run the dpkg-reconfigure. Please let me know if this works for you. --Frank
