https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332063#c1 Marcus Schaefer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Major |Normal Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |paulriverside@gmail.com Summary|sax2 does not detect changes in video hardware |sax2: does not detect changes in video hardware |and new driver install... |and new driver install... --- Comment #1 from Marcus Schaefer 2007-10-09 02:20:53 MST --- if you have a look into /usr/sbin/sax.sh you will find code like the following: function needHardwareUpdate() { ... for i in `/usr/sbin/isax -l Card | grep Driver | cut -f3 -d:`;do echo "SaX: Checking update status for $i driver" case $i in nvidia) if [ "$MD/${i}_drv.so" -nt $CF ];then echo "SaX: NVidia driver is newer than config -> calling reinit" return 1 fi as you can see we take care for the update from xorg (nv) to NVIDIA (nvidia) driver. But the drivers timestamp must be newer than the xorg.conf timestamp. The process will fail if: 1) the user manually edits xorg.conf after driver update, not a bug 2) While installing the nvidia driver some process touches the xorg.conf This would be bad ===> Stefan could you check 2) Thanks -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332063#c2 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sndirsch@novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|sndirsch@novell.com | --- Comment #2 from Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-10 10:11:23 MST ---

2) While installing the nvidia driver some process touches the xorg.conf This would be bad

Somewhat, yes. x11-video-nvidiaG01.spec [...] %post [...] # if configuration for proprietary driver already exists, bring it back # (Bug #270040, comments #91/92) if [ -f etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia-postun ]; then mv etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia-postun etc/X11/xorg.conf fi ### nv --> nvidia in xorg.conf test -x usr/bin/switch2nvidia && usr/bin/switch2nvidia -- 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.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332063#c4 --- Comment #4 from Stefan Dirsch 2007-10-11 04:18:31 MST --- I can touch the driver after running switch2nvidia to make sure it's newer than the config file and SaX2 detects the nvidia driver. But I think there's a misunderstanding here. After running switch2nvidia there should already be a nvidia driver based configuration in place. So it wouldn't have been required to run sax2 at all to create one. -- 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.