Hello SuSE people.
Asked this question a little over a month ago and got no response. I just need to know the answer to this.
Running 9.2 with all updates. Please confirm or reject my assumptions.
9.2 uses xorg. correct? Anything written about X should be written to xorg.conf correct?
Here is my point. When I installed 9.2 all of the parameters of my monitor were written to xorg.conf. I changed out the monitor to a new tft/lcd monitor. Sax wrote the parameters of the new monitor to XF86Config. (The old monitor is still present in xorg.conf) I have seen this split-brain confusion in 9.x until 9.3 where only xorg.conf
On Thursday 01 September 2005 12:15 am, B. Stia wrote: lives with no XF86Config to be found. The 10.0 betas at http://openSUSE.org aren't having this problem either. Almost made me more insane until I started copying the one that was updated to the one that wasn't (xorg.conf <-> XF86Config) before init 5 after any sax2 work.
Now, everything seems to be working correctly but has left me somewhat confused and bewildered. Is my system using xorg, like it should be in 9.2 or has it changed up and is now using XF86Config. Or, is it using some combination of the two. Why did Yast do this? No clue as to why but a few guesses: no one saw the problem because they didn't change hardware or settings during QA; if they did do this as part of testing then they got lucky and it worked like they thought it should; etc.
Ain't the real world fun?
I'll probably buy 10.0 when it is released so it is probably a moot point. Still would like to understand this though.
Bob S.
Not very many people saw this phenomenon AFAICT but it happened to me every release until 9.3. Stan