[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE

[Leroy Tennison]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 05:10 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>>What implementation of 'man' are they using?  It doesn't support 'man -K 
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>I typically use "man -k" or "apropos".
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>>and seems limited (no entry for XF86Config !?)
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>They now ship X.org, so you want "man xorg.conf".
>Unless it's an old version.
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>>Also, what hardware detection mechanism are they using?
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>Most hardware detection is based on the kernel, although it's up to the
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>>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?
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>Well, there has been a "shake-up" with devfs and, now, udev.  I think
>udev is finally going to be the future.
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>Under Fedora Core 3+ (and RHEL 4+), it's /dev/input/*.
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They both have 'man -k ...' (= apropos) but RedHat/Fedora's man has "K : 
search for a string in all pages".  That's an awefully nice feature, 
wonder why SuSE hasn't picked up on it.