[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> So basically is Xorg fails at detecting the optimum settings we do what
> we did in the beginning and use vi to fix those?  And this is better
> how?

I agree it's unfortunate that dpkg-reconfigure, even when the priority 
is set to low, no longer asks questions about driver, resolutions, etc. 
According to this [0], there should still be an interface you can use to 
reconfigure X, but I'm not certain what it is. Perhaps they mean 
displayconfig-gtk; it's still around even though there is no menu item 
for it.

[0] From 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/HardyHardwareDetection, 
"Debconf interface: For manual tweaks and situations where X.org does 
not start at all, we should still provide a lightweight debconf 
interface. However, this should use libxf86config, pyxf86config, or 
guidance-backends and thus respect the settings in the existing 
xorg.conf instead of clobbering it with the debconf values and abusing 
debconf as a database. Debian is about to do the same changes for X.org, 
and their and Ubuntu's X.org maintainers are working together on this."

-Brian