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sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in 8.04

Asked by Peter

I have an SIS 315E video card which corrupts the monitor.
In 7.04 I could use sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to change to the VESA driver which worked well.
I cannot do that in 8.04. Only the keyboard can be altered.
In 7.04 this altered xorg.conf to give :-

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Generic Video Card"
 Driver "vesa"
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
 Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

In 8.04 it has :-

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Is it safe to manually edit xorg.conf to what it had in 7.04?

Thanks
Peter

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Best Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

Yes, it's safe to edit your xorg.conf (but don't forget to make a backup).
dpkg-reconfigure now doesn't work because of bug #207409.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#2

Thanks Max Schukin, that solved my question.