Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (509 mails)

[Christian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:15:41 Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
> Christian Morales Vega wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:09:44 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> >> Hi Susers !
> >>
> >> Ubuntu team have just developed an excellent technology, that existed
> >> in Windows for many years before.
> >>
> >> More specifically, the ability to recover from Graphics Adapter
> >> misconfigurations.
> >>
> >> It is called: BulletProofX !
> >>
> >> I would like to see this included into openSUSE (11.0 ?), and
> >> available as an addon for openSUSE 10.3.
> >>
> >> Home Page:
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
> >
> > Ubuntu wiki talks about "Xorg7.3Integration"... will X.org 7.3 help with
> > this? I understand that it will provide input and ouput hotplug, but can
> > this help? What are the normal problems that make X unable to start,  are
> > just misconfigured "Device Section" or there are other things that can
> > make it unable to start (even if we have EDID...)?
> > And what is going Ubuntu to make exactly? They talk about a "GDM Failsafe
> > Server that isn't supported by KDM"???
>
> Have a look e.g. at Bug 304142. Such or similar may come up with new
> monitor device name strings and/or graphics chipsets anytime.
>
> FMF
>
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Well, that was a bug in SaX2. Even if we had something like BulletProofX a bug 
like that one would have the same consequences. Same problem for Ubuntu if 
their DisplayConfigGTK happens to have a similar bug.
There is little we can do to avoid a problem like the one shown in that bug.
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