Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 17:42, Jon Cosby <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sure there will nice and flashy GUIs in its place, but when the X
> server session fails, sax2 in text mode is almost 100% reliable. What will
> take its place here?

I think you're still thinking in terms of what sax2 did for you when
it was relevant.. sax2 in text mode was great for sorting out a borked
xorg.xconf file... but in the "new" way of working there is no
xorg.conf... things are detected at boot....  and that's it.

If you've hand generated your xorg.conf due to some odd or exotic
hardware combination or other special needs... then if X fails, you
sort it out at the terminal by tweaking your hand generated xorg.conf.

To be honest... I'm kind of glad I don't have to deal with sax2
anymore.  The new autodetect is working perfect (for me and for
everyone I help and support with openSUSE across various laptop and
desktop configs) with multiple monitors, with single monitors.. with
displays with odd resolutions... with beamers/overhead projectors...
with every display device that I've connected so far.  I'm sure I'll
eventually stumble on one that doesn't work... but that hasn't
happened yet.

Same goes for mice... and keyboards... everything that was in the
xorg.conf is actually... for all hardware I've worked on... works
better now than with sax2 and xorg.conf.

C.
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