On Monday 22 May 2006 10:53, Kevanf1 wrote: [snip]
I know that it is not the fault of 'Linux' that certain video cards or monitors don't work correctly under it. [snip]
I read the original thrust as being "My monitor and video card work fine with Linux, _but_ sax doesn't configure them correctly, so I have to configure them manually." I have also had that experience several times. Very often, sax does not generate a working configuration for me, and I end up writing my own xorg.conf to get things working, which is usually much simpler than sax's. This has been true for many years, through many SuSE versions. I think it's getting better gradually, but I _always_ end up editing xorg.conf to improve it, even when sax has managed to generate a configuration that actually works (which it did on my laptop in 10.0 :). It is certainly non-trivial to write a configurator which can handle even 99% of users' systems, particularly when the machines are linux users', and somewhat disparate as such, but the number of non-working configs generated by sax has certainly been unacceptable to me over the years. If it can't figure out a correct optimal config, it should at least fall back to a "likely to work everywhere" basic setup, e.g. 800x600@60Hz, 24-bit colour, rather than generating a config which doesn't work at all and leaving the user to sort it out by hand from the text console! Not that I mind doing that, but it's not exactly "slick". -- Bill Gallafent.