https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227464 Summary: openSUSE, 10.2, Incomplete xorg.conf file generated - unable to use x11 Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mszick@morethan.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Yes - I read the directions - and I would include the xorg.conf file if I had one - but if I had one, I would not need to file this bug report ;-) I noticed somewhere in the reading that SaX was trashing the xorg.conf file - This is to let you know that in the 10.2-GM-DVD* set released 12/07 it is still happening. Also - I can not find the setup utilities that normally ship with Xorg/X11 Also - The installation disk does not have a simple text editor to write my own xorg.conf file (if I knew how). I have not exaimined your Yast2 thingy, but if it uses a scripting engine, and this xorg.conf is not a hard-coded problem in the installer, then read on - The following has been verified by myself and fixed, in other distributions ... The situation: running kernel 2.6.18.2 in a small amount of free-memory, amount of swap does not matter - Running your installer in initrd puts anything with less the 0.5g of memory into this 'small free memory' catagory ... The scripting engine (and any other program) can be given a dirty page - python does detect this - I don't know what your system uses ... You can fix this by applying the 2.6.18.2-3.diff VM patch from kernel.org Also, you should apply the patches to bring the kernel upto 2.6.18.5 - the *.5 patch fixes some things with scsi and sata disks that could result in failures of your customer's install/operation. - - - - How to duplicate: Without the 2.6.18.2-3.diff patch in the kernel - With a "small memory x86 system" <=368Mb - Freshly formatted disks - Run the CD set of normal installation - Reboot - Observe that you are at a command line prompt - Run yast2 - exaimine the hardware reported - Learn that the system has properly identified keyboard, mouse, display board(s), monitor - Examine xorg.conf - see that only the first few, hardcoded lines are in the file. - - - - After hand-crafting an xorg.conf file on another system (thank you Debian), patch, rebuild kernel, rebuild install disk, repeat above - - - - - That is left as a tech-student exercise, I am still at the 'hand-craft' the xorg.conf file step. Mike -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.