On 2010/03/17 22:43 (GMT-0500) Jon Cosby composed:
I see where SaX2 has been removed from M3/GNOME. As this has been the standard way to resolve video card issues, what will be taking its place? Is there a better way to go about this?
SaX2 retirement is basically a management cost/benefit decision, a bean counter cutback. Novell won't be devoting time to its support any longer, but has announced it's open to continuation if someone volunteers keep it working as xorg continues to evolve. Scratch one of the last two major openSUSE features that makes it better than other distros. All that's left now is YaST, and inertia. :-( The goal of the upstream Xorg devs is making everything X automatic, which with common modern hardware, works in most cases. I can't imagine how multihead/multigfxcard/multidisplay configs could possibly be automatic. Also, automatic depends on hardware characteristics performing according to X dev expectations, which will never be 100%. X -configure is built into upstream X for building a skeleton xorg.conf. It's crude, and not interactive, but better than nothing for those whose hardware malfunctions under automatic assumptions. Oh, and don't try X -configure if you're running Factory: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586053 For a while, most can probably get by using an xorg.conf from an earlier release, such as 11.2. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org