[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 11.2 and odd OpenOffice issues

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> ...
>>> I have used sax2 (had to because the video wasn't correctly guessed by X
>>> - discovered this when, to my surprise, there was no xorg.conf) and the
>>> video card (SIS650) and monitor (ViewSonic A70) are set.
>> Sax2 has been deprecated.  Moving forward it was decided that
>> xorg's autodection of everything is "good enough"... thus there
>> isn't a need for xorg.conf either in most cases.
>>
>> I'm not sure "we're" ready for this yet though.  I know that
>> xorg doesn't get it right in all cases...
>>
> 
> Where have I heard the phrase "good enough" before?  Oh yea - Microsoft.

Just for the record, there is an option in xorg.conf to
reenable processing of the info in xorg.conf... but by default,
even if you've got a xorg.conf file, it isn't used by the
newer versions of xorg.conf unless the option is set.