Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1599 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009/10/09 12:37 (GMT+0200) Mark Goldstein composed:

> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Any editor, as root, but don't forget to re-calculate md5 checksum
> > > using md5sum and put it into corg.conf.md5 in the same directory,
> > > otherwise X will not start.

> > Really?  I've NEVER done that... and edited xorg many many times...
> > and X always started.

Same here.

> ... of course it should be xorg.conf.md5...

> Well, I do not remember which version of SuSE it was when I found out
> that after manually changing xorg.conf, X would not start.

Probably some fluke.

> I then
> found out that SaX modifies MD5 checksum. Since then I'm always doing
> it. Maybe it is not needed anymore?

Surely the md5 has something to do with how Sax/YaST decides if xorg.conf
remains unchanged since the last time _it_ changed it.
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