Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 12:15 am, B. Stia wrote:
> Hello SuSE people.
>
> Asked this question a little over a month ago and got no response. I
> just need to know the answer to this.
>
> Running 9.2 with all updates. Please confirm or reject my assumptions.
>
> 9.2 uses xorg. correct?  Anything written about X should be written to
> xorg.conf correct?
>
> Here is my point. When I installed 9.2 all of the parameters of my
> monitor were written to xorg.conf.  I changed out the monitor to a new
> tft/lcd monitor.  Sax wrote the parameters of the new monitor to
> XF86Config. (The old monitor is still present in xorg.conf)
I have seen this split-brain confusion in 9.x until 9.3 where only xorg.conf 
lives with no XF86Config to be found. The 10.0 betas at http://openSUSE.org  
aren't having this problem either.

Almost made me more insane until I started copying the one that was updated 
to the one that wasn't (xorg.conf <-> XF86Config) before init 5 after any 
sax2 work.

> Now, everything seems to be working correctly but has left me somewhat
> confused and bewildered.  Is my system using xorg, like it should be in
> 9.2 or has it changed up and is now using XF86Config. Or, is it using
> some combination of the two. Why did Yast do this?
No clue as to why but a few guesses: no one saw the problem because they 
didn't change hardware or settings during QA; if they did do this as part 
of testing then they got lucky and it worked like they thought it should; 
etc.

Ain't the real world fun?

> I'll probably buy 10.0 when it is released so it is probably a moot
> point. Still would like to understand this though.
>
> Bob S.

Not very many people saw this phenomenon AFAICT but it happened to me every 
release until 9.3.

Stan