Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday, 2009-08-08 at 02:45 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le samedi 08 août 2009, à 00:34 +0200, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
> > On Friday, 2009-08-07 at 23:21 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> >
> > > I didn't state things the way I wanted, I guess:
> > >
> > > + if you install from the livecd, then it means that you already have X
> > >  working.
> > >
> > > + all the X configuration is supposed to be dynamic now, with tools
> > >  already provided on the desktop. So if you want to change things like
> > >  resolution or add a new monitor, this should be working fine.
> >
> > And, what do we do if X does not work, or does so incorrectly, if
> > there is no configuration file, and as graphic mode does not run, we
> > can't reach those desktop tools?
>
> So. You install from the livecd with X working (see first item above),
> you don't tweak the configuration (since you don't have a configuration
> file) and then... X does not work? If this happens, then it'd be a
> *huge* bug, which should certainly not occur on a released version of
> openSUSE. I mean, "huge bug" as in "blocker".
>
> Sorry, I don't follow what use case you're trying to cover here. Maybe
> I'm misunderstanding something, though (and maybe it's just that I
> should be sleeping already ;-))?

I'm thinking not only of the live CD, but of the future of the distro 
without sax2, and/or without xorg.conf. How will we (users) do it.


> Anyway, coolo already said that removing sax2 from the livecd in 11.2 is
> not an option, so unless he changes his mind because of the space
> issues, we're having here a discussion which will lead nowhere in all
> cases ;-)

Ok, not regarding this CD.

> It's a good opportunity to raise awareness on X autoconfiguration so
> that people play with it, though. This will certainly help us identify
> potential issues for 11.3.

That's exactly the point! Autoconfiguration scares the (4lw) out of me, so 
me, we, want to know what do we do do to bypass the autoconfiguration in 
the future.


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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