https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376317 Summary: Multiple monitor, different times - screwed up system Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Alpha 3 Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: sndirsch@novell.com ReportedBy: jrobiso2@ford.com QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com CC: aj@suse.de Found By: --- Recently, I obtained a new wide screen monitor for my kids. So, being a prudent guy, I took our old LCD screen to work. (I'm getting old - laptop screen is getting hard to read). Using SCPM as I do, I figured I would just make another profile for the LCD. Then the nightmares began. laptop is 1280x800 (fixed - company is too cheap to let Dell sell us laptops with LCDs with more than one resolution). LCD monitor is old 5/4 aspect ratio. X refused to let me do it. Had to use sax -r. Now I have to boot twice - once to let SCPM change /etc/sysconfig/videobios, the second so that boot.video can read the changed file. To make a long story short, when I booted the Winblows partition, it sensed the new monitor, new aspect ratio, new resolution, and changed. While I hate the monolith from Redmond, I am fair enough to recognize when they do it right. How am I supposed to sell the idea of Linux to my parents and children when I myself, who have been using Linux since around kernel 1.2, take 3 hours messing with config files and rebooting a few hundred times just to do something that the Vole did the first time I booted into it? I love Linux. I DON'T love some of the paths it has taken in the last 15 years, especially the ones leading to extreme complication instead of simplicity. If anyone reading this has some control over developmental resources (hint: Novell!!) let's expend some resources on X, display managers, window managers, etc. and try and simplify this huge management mess. Not that I want to lose the wonderful flexibility of Linux - but can we try and put all related configs together? Or at least in 1 directory? (symlinks?). If FSH says I have to have my kdm configs over in /opt/kde3 and X11 configs in /etc/X11 . . . how about we symlink the kdm stuff under/within /etc/X11??? Its just getting too darned complicated. Way too many locations and files to look in and test anytime something goes a little buggy. Let's put some thought into keeping related configs together. Just my 2 cents. Or maybe I'm just getting old and cranky. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.