Anyone know why Sax2 is no longer in Yast?
It's being phased out - as was discussed on the Factory list a couple months ago. You can still launch it from CLI, but in future releases... it won't be included anymore. It's basically lived out most of its life. X has a relatively robust autodetect now... it works in 99% of the cases. Its the 1% where a manual set up will be required. I was wondering how you change which driver the graphics card uses - e.g.. if i wanted to change from the proprietary Nvidia (or ATI) driver to the open
Or is there another way to find out about your graphics card, its driver version etc (apart from the "Hardware" probe option in Yast).
In KDE4, sysinfo:/ in Konqueror provides some really basic info. Configure Desktop > Display provides the same basic information that SAX2 did about your card/resolution etc. SAX2 doesn't provide driver version information (at least not on my system). Thanks In Gnome, it's in Control Center > Display where again, the same basic information is shows as is/was in SAX2.
This method (autodetect) works WAY better than the old SAX2 tool ever did - assuming you're not one of the unlucky/rare few who have an undetected monitor. I've used the autodetect a lot with my laptop, connecting it to an external projector, and it's got it right 100%. Sax2 got rid of a problem on my display I had after upgrading to 11.2 and KDE4 Factory. I had a thin stripe of random colours down the right hand side. I didn't have an issue before the KDE4 Factory install so i was wondering if
On Sunday 10 Jan 2010 11:07:40 Clayton wrote: source ones - how do i do it? there was anything in it that could have affected it.
Should something like Sax2 be apart of the Advanced section of "System Settings"?
No, since SAX2 is no longer necessary for most system configs. There are still a few unusual monitors that the auto config thing doesn't pick up on, but they are not all that common. If you have a config that is not working with the autodetect in X, then it needs to be raised as a bug so it can be fixed/added etc.
My preferred option would be when all options related to a device e.g. display, are accessible from a single point as well as being distributed in other places such as Yast. For example,for me its the logical thing to have all display related options in one place whether it be a theme change, driver change etc and all advanced config be protected via the root password as per normal. It makes support so much easier when you can tell a newbie to right click the desktop and select "Display Settings".
They are all in a single point.... the only place a new user needs to go is Configure Desktop (KDE4) or Control Center (Gnome). In the other lesser used GUIs it's basically the same... using whatever desktop Configure tools they provide. Is "Configure Desktop" the same as "System Settings"? In system settings you have 5 display related icons on the general page and then one on the Advanced C.
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