[ale] New Distros, X11 Blues

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:34 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> John Mills wrote:
> > Very tempting. (That's 'Plan C'.)
> 
> The reason I say this is because there were changes in X video detection 
> between
> 7.10 and 8.04.
> 
> If 7.10 works then simply copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then blow it all 
> away with 8.10.
> when 8.10 is done copy the xorg.conf back and you should be in great shape!
> 
> 7.10 is "old" but it will only be on there for 30 minutes.

Do you even to install 7.10, or will booting the 7.10 live cd then
copying xorg.conf be sufficient?

-Brian