__/ [houghi] on Sunday 30 October 2005 12:09 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Next do `sax2 -b /usr/share/sax/profile/Radeon_DualHead`
>>>
>>> Look in /usr/share/sax/profile/ for others if that does not work. It is
>>> how I get my Matrox G550 configured (well, I use the Matrox_G550 instead
>>> of the Radeon_DualHead)
>>>
>>> Strangely enough Sax2 has gone backward instead of forward with this.
>>
>> YaST never worked for me.
>
> As I made clear and apparently not clear enough. YaST also did not work
> for me. That is why I used sax2 directly with the -b option and the file
> with the configuration.
Yes, I read that. *polite smile* Sax2/YaST disappointed me on several oc-
casions. They don't deal with complex cases quite so gracefully. I once
contacted them about it, but no reply. At home (SuSE 9.3), when I try
testing some tough settings with YaST, the whole of tty7 freezes and I am
forced to reboot.
There is still a long road ahead when it comes to screen resolution com-
patibility. Most people I know struggle to get their maximal possible
screen resolution, even in Ubuntu. It's almost a rarity for that to work
without some effort.
There is often no way around this other than to edit the X config file.
This is embarrassing when you try to tell someone that Ubuntu works per-
fectly 'out of the box' and at the very beginning, monitor compatibility
is screwed and the user needs to open a shell to edit some daunting hier-
archical text files. This sure deterred some people whom I tried to intro-
duce to Linux.
Best Wishes,
Roy
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