2009/12/1 Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com>:
* jdd <jdd@dodin.org> [12-01-09 15:31]:
Yes, earlier today an announcement was made about a business decision.
I think it very unfriendly for Novell to make so hudge change without asking the rest of the community. May be some other Novell tasks could be less important for openSUSE than SaX2...
You must remember that Novell does *not* work for the "Community", but donates time and money toward bettering the "Community" Project. Their decision is no different than you choosing to use another distro, except it was based on their current business conditions.
Aside from "business" let's be fairer. This change is an inevitable technical decision, a consequence of the Xorg community decision to move to auto-configuration. Blame Klaus Knopper for showing that you could auto-detect and configure on the fly, even if you started with Debian, if you need a scapegoat. Noone misses hacking sendmail.cf (& sendmail freeze) files, nor twiddling with disk geometry parameters and block layout on disk platters. I will not miss modelines, and add weird z-axis button assignments and other unnatural contortions I have performed over the years.
I just want to say that Sax2 is mandatory now. On 11.2, changing a monitor for a worst one, with less resolution, let the user without solution and without screen (I had this on two very different computers)
the solution is sax2 -a, simply, so may be a very simplifyed sax2 is enough (may be a simple script)
Equally working non-static configuration ought to work. If you don't have a static X11/xorg.conf then you simply detach monitor and restart X. How could ppl plug in laptops to monitor cables and projects and have it just work, if somone who understands graphics & monitor tweaks needs to run a tool, outside the GUI environment most are comfortable in? What about connecting moue and proper keyboard via USB? With the changes going on in X, KMS & unified graphics memory management, plenty breakage is to be expected. If Sax2 tried to adapt it'd likely be broken to right now, rather than a legacy configurator for a legacy static mode. I hope that Novell help the FOSS driver development, particularly for those with cards that were "legacied" earlier in the year sooner than anyone hoped. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org