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Re: [SLE] ATTN SuSE: Serious Bug: Sax2 never actually saves the XF86Config file!
- From: StarTux <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106281024300.11185-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
1. Calm down
Not used Sax2 much, had some issues if I tried running Sax2 with Nividia
graphics cards and specifiying the "nvidia" driver, it would then crash.
Specified "nv" as the driver it would then run and save fine.
It was really weird with the Nvidia and sax2, I once started X and it
wrote startup messages to the actual XF86Config file, weird huh?
Matt
--
"The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves."
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Excuse me if I sound hyper, I'll try to stay calm but I'm really upset over this.
>
> Before I go any further, I would like to state:
>
> 1. This started on box #1, SuSE 7.1
> 2. We updated sax2 with the latest updates for 7.1 and it still didn't fix the problem
> 3. The same said problem happened when we tried to run sax2 on a 2nd and 3rd computer, all with totally different hardware, so it's not hardware related, it's SaX2's problem.
> 4 Finally, we updated computer #1 to SuSE 7.2 and it STILL isn't fixed!
>
>
> The error is as follows: During setup, you can set the monitor settings just fine, and they are saved to /etc/XF86Config. HOWEVER, when you try to run SaX2 at a later time (it happened to us the first time when we needed to "install" a new monitor), it goes through the whole process and never actually saves the XF86Config file. I have tried a wide variety of things, including clicking Save file >"no" to Exit >Fine Tune> Save and Save file>"No" to exit >Fine tune>abort>Save file> "Yes" to exit - every possible combination.
>
> One time, I found the saved file in some weird place, I think it was /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/sax/files/. But only once, the rest of the time I couldn't find it anywhere.
>
> And worst of all, SaX2 did not give any error message, and it's NOT a permission problem, I tried chmod 777 /etc/XF86Config and also tried removing it all together, and the same thing for /etc/X11/XF86Config -- nothing, no results, no file was ever saved.
>
>
> As I stated before, this has now happened on 3 entirely different computers. It's becoming a source of embarrassment too - I have often recommended SuSE to friends because of SuSE" excellent SaX2 configuration tool, and now that bit of advise is very worthless.
>
>
> Please, please, please, do something about this.
>
> I bet you there's a few newbies out there who went out and bought mandrake the next day after running into this problem.
>
> What really boggles me is this has happened to me 4 times of the last few months, and I haven't seen anyone else report this problem. Has anyone else run into this?
>
> And before you ask, yes, I was running sax2 as root :-p
>
> I've been using SuSE since 6.3 and never had this problem before.
>
> *help*
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan Wilson
> System Administrator
>
> Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
> Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
>
>
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>
Not used Sax2 much, had some issues if I tried running Sax2 with Nividia
graphics cards and specifiying the "nvidia" driver, it would then crash.
Specified "nv" as the driver it would then run and save fine.
It was really weird with the Nvidia and sax2, I once started X and it
wrote startup messages to the actual XF86Config file, weird huh?
Matt
--
"The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves."
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Ok,
>
> Excuse me if I sound hyper, I'll try to stay calm but I'm really upset over this.
>
> Before I go any further, I would like to state:
>
> 1. This started on box #1, SuSE 7.1
> 2. We updated sax2 with the latest updates for 7.1 and it still didn't fix the problem
> 3. The same said problem happened when we tried to run sax2 on a 2nd and 3rd computer, all with totally different hardware, so it's not hardware related, it's SaX2's problem.
> 4 Finally, we updated computer #1 to SuSE 7.2 and it STILL isn't fixed!
>
>
> The error is as follows: During setup, you can set the monitor settings just fine, and they are saved to /etc/XF86Config. HOWEVER, when you try to run SaX2 at a later time (it happened to us the first time when we needed to "install" a new monitor), it goes through the whole process and never actually saves the XF86Config file. I have tried a wide variety of things, including clicking Save file >"no" to Exit >Fine Tune> Save and Save file>"No" to exit >Fine tune>abort>Save file> "Yes" to exit - every possible combination.
>
> One time, I found the saved file in some weird place, I think it was /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/sax/files/. But only once, the rest of the time I couldn't find it anywhere.
>
> And worst of all, SaX2 did not give any error message, and it's NOT a permission problem, I tried chmod 777 /etc/XF86Config and also tried removing it all together, and the same thing for /etc/X11/XF86Config -- nothing, no results, no file was ever saved.
>
>
> As I stated before, this has now happened on 3 entirely different computers. It's becoming a source of embarrassment too - I have often recommended SuSE to friends because of SuSE" excellent SaX2 configuration tool, and now that bit of advise is very worthless.
>
>
> Please, please, please, do something about this.
>
> I bet you there's a few newbies out there who went out and bought mandrake the next day after running into this problem.
>
> What really boggles me is this has happened to me 4 times of the last few months, and I haven't seen anyone else report this problem. Has anyone else run into this?
>
> And before you ask, yes, I was running sax2 as root :-p
>
> I've been using SuSE since 6.3 and never had this problem before.
>
> *help*
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan Wilson
> System Administrator
>
> Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
> Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx
> For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@xxxxxxxx
> Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the
> archives at http://lists.suse.com
>
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