On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:03:19AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
[...] runlevel 3. I see that now it goes to runlevel 5, with option "x11failsafe" which is new for me and I don't know what it is. Is that what you mean?
Exactly. It's not expected that you know what x11failsafe is. In short, it means that X.Org uses xorg.conf.install instead of xorg.conf, which I'm calling a failsafe X configuration. It's expected to work. Otherwise the installation wouldn't have been possible. x11failsafe also helps when X using xorg.conf still starts, but freezes the machine or results in a blank screen. You cannot detect such a scenario automatically at all. You find more details about this in Bug #246158. Of course a third boot option would have been imaginable ("X11 failsafe") without the other kernel options, but I didn't even consider to request it. I'm sure it would have been rejected to prevent requests for even more boot options with people's favorite kernel boot options. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org