[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 05:10 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> What implementation of 'man' are they using?  It doesn't support 'man -K 
> ...'

I typically use "man -k" or "apropos".

> and seems limited (no entry for XF86Config !?)

They now ship X.org, so you want "man xorg.conf".
Unless it's an old version.

> Also, what hardware detection mechanism are they using?

Most hardware detection is based on the kernel, although it's up to the
installer to find things.

> I admittedly have an odd mouse (I *think* it is a beta wheel mouse I got
> from Microsoft years ago before they officially introduced it).  Fedora 
> doesn't guess it right either but at least it's 'fixable' in the mouse 
> selection part of installation.  Nothing helps with SuSE, I finally 
> guessed my way through to the kernel parameter psmouse.proto=bare (from 
> Googling) and then SuSE detected 'new hardware'.  This time the 
> Intellimouse Explorer worked and wrote XF86Config with
> "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> Prior to this it wrote
> "Device" /dev/mice"    (or something like that)
> Any ideas, comments, flames, etc?

Well, there has been a "shake-up" with devfs and, now, udev.  I think
udev is finally going to be the future.

Under Fedora Core 3+ (and RHEL 4+), it's /dev/input/*.

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