On Thursday 19 November 2009 08:56:16 Clayton wrote:
Excellent question. The only thing I know is that it is now - in 11.2 - all done with "smoke and mirrors" and that it is all done "magically" at the time of booting the system.
It is done "on the fly", at run time.
It's not new to the Linux world... new to openSUSE though. Ubuntu has been doing this for at least one prior release...
Magic happens at boot, and somehow it all seems to work :-P I'm happy it works, but... I'd like to know more about how this magic works for when it goes wrong - that said, it hasn't gone wrong yet... auto detects odd resolutions correctly etc as well. (eg 1024x600 resolution on my netbook is set correctly on first boot).
C.
I am yet to upgrade from 11.1 to 11.2. Will this magic automatically detect and configure my dual head/twin screen display? I have an nVidia GeForce 9200GS graphics card. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default, KDE 4.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org