Felix-Nicolai Müller wrote:
As you pointed out, configuration still needs to be done and I don't see the difference between calling sax2 from graphical mode or from CLI. It is exactly the same command as well as it does require excatly the same workflow.
I still think it would be a good idea if we, on an X startup failure on first X startup after boot, when it can't load the video driver, would automatically load sax2. (written with this indentation to make if levels of that decision clear) At such a sax2 launch, we should note to the user that we failed to start the graphical interface because of a wrong video driver configuration, and either auto-detect a working config right away or let the user choose to do so, which should be able to end up in saving this new X config and launching into X and xdm, kdm, auto-login or whatever the user has set his box to. In any case, we should offer a "Cancel and exit to text mode" which basically does end up where we end up right now. This isn't that that much of a "new technology", it's just a user-friendly way of getting out of an awkward situation - and technically it's just detecting that series of if cases mentioned above and launching an already existing application with maybe slightly adapted UI texts. OK, I'm saying this as someone who is just a simple user of openSUSE but someone who knows about open source development and someone who's deep into open source project organization, and I know the main part of this is probably "make a patch and submit it for reviews", which I'm unable to do, so I can't expect it to get magically fixed. I hope I could present this idea in a form that someone capable of developing it can understand it, and I hope someone actually interested in seeing this can come up with a patch and submit it, as it's surely a feature that would help the openSUSE experience for people not as knowledgeable as us (I guess anyone daring to try Factory is able to cope with calling sax2 himself, we see worse things than failing kernel boots or failing grub stag2, to name some that happened to me recently). Robert Kaiser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org