Feature added by: Bruce Korb (bkorb) Feature #309152, revision 1 Title: turn on extra diagnostics openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruce Korb (bkorb) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: A suggestion for enabling extra diagnostics on a subsystem-by-subsystem basis: CF: http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/434693-switched-off-sound-vide... For each subsystem, have some well-named "I need diagnostics for this" thing available under the yast administrator stuff. That would turn on diagnostics for the subsystem. Then, I could turn it on for X and get something a bit better than the .xsession-errors (which showed nothing obvious for this problem) and for sound (aka "alsa" for those in the know). So, for now, if I have anything useful, I do not know what or where. Sorry. Thank you! Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Rationale: Right now, I know that my secondary monitor occasionally displays garbage in the boot up and splash screens. Also, it sometimes comes up without a signal, so I only get half my desk top. Why? I cannot tell. There is insufficient information in my .xsession-errors to tell me anything. I do know that restarting KDE is insufficient to clear the problem. Not even "init 6" is sufficient. I must do a full shut down/halt and then a reboot. Sometimes, several times. I'd like to be able to go into yast and get to the video stuff and set a mode that says, "record all the diagnostic info you can think of" and when it happens again, I've got the smoking gun along with the smoke. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309152