On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:15:41 Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > Christian Morales Vega wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:09:44 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> Hi Susers ! > >> > >> Ubuntu team have just developed an excellent technology, that existed > >> in Windows for many years before. > >> > >> More specifically, the ability to recover from Graphics Adapter > >> misconfigurations. > >> > >> It is called: BulletProofX ! > >> > >> I would like to see this included into openSUSE (11.0 ?), and > >> available as an addon for openSUSE 10.3. > >> > >> Home Page: > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX > > > > Ubuntu wiki talks about "Xorg7.3Integration"... will X.org 7.3 help with > > this? I understand that it will provide input and ouput hotplug, but can > > this help? What are the normal problems that make X unable to start, are > > just misconfigured "Device Section" or there are other things that can > > make it unable to start (even if we have EDID...)? > > And what is going Ubuntu to make exactly? They talk about a "GDM Failsafe > > Server that isn't supported by KDM"??? > > Have a look e.g. at Bug 304142. Such or similar may come up with new > monitor device name strings and/or graphics chipsets anytime. > > FMF > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, that was a bug in SaX2. Even if we had something like BulletProofX a bug like that one would have the same consequences. Same problem for Ubuntu if their DisplayConfigGTK happens to have a similar bug. There is little we can do to avoid a problem like the one shown in that bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
