On Saturday 26 August 2006 5:49 pm, Stan Glasoe wrote:
Usually SaX will keep your changes but, wait for it, make a backup of your changes anyway. Updating anything related to Xorg via YaST/Smart/Apt/etc may wipe out your changes at a later time. Then again, it might not. I've had all of the above happen to me since SUSE 7.3 with the same hardware setup.
Preserve that xorg.conf especially when going from/to any version of SUSE such as from 10.1 to 10.2.
Backup doesn't solve the problem I'm referring to. The problem is not losing the original xorg.conf; it's not having changes carried over. If SaX changes xorg.conf, I want the SaX changes -- but I also want my own changes to be integrated with them. If I can make the changes through SaX, then that's less of a concern since I know that SaX understands the file. The underlying question is whether SaX constructs a new xorg.conf by referring to the old one or by referring to some database of its own. If the former, I'm probably OK since I imagine that SaX simply retains any lines it's not fiddling with or doesn't understand. But if the latter, then my changes get lost. Paul