Re: [yast-devel] Request for testing a new hwinfo

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On 6/3/2015 at 09:00 AM, Ladislav Slezak wrote: I have reimplemented monitor detection in hwinfo to read the data from /sys instead of running BIOS emulation and reading the data from the VESA BIOS. This should work better and should be more reliable.

I have tested it on few machines and for me it works better than the old implementation (e.g. in a dual head setup with two monitors the old code detected just one monitor, with the new code it correctly detects both monitors).

For my dual head setup it now correctly reports two monitors where the old SLE12 version reported three. output attached.

How to test it in 13.2 or SLE12 (run as root):

# store the original output to see the difference hwinfo --monitor > monitor1.log

# add the 13.2 repo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lslezak/openSUSE_13.2_Update / hwinfo_test # or the SLE12 repo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lslezak/SLE12/ hwinfo_test

btw - typo in the URL ^^^