[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 11.2 and odd OpenOffice issues

[terry]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> 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.
>

For those who may not realize why we no longer use the xorg.conf file,
(by default) .... [this is the way I  understand it]:

Without  the config file, xorg [usually] detects our video card and
monitor and loads up driver and display settings on a session by
session basis,  which is really quite convenient for us because;  If
we change out the video card  or monitor, nothing will need to be done
if there is no xorg.conf file because everything just works as it
should - the system loads video drivers and display settings
automatically after we start the machine up again, (in most cases).

Now in the case where we end up  using "sax2" [or "X -configure" or
"xorgsetup" or "dpkg-reconfigure xorg"]  to write /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
it would probably be best to delete that file just before shutting
down to change a display adapter or monitor and that way xorg will
automatically detect the new hardware  and run just fine [without
using the xorg.conf file], ...(in most cases).    Well, when changing
the display adapter yes, but not when switching only a monitor, I
think display settings will usually be done automatically [in most
cases] even if there IS an xorg.conf file, but if a wrong driver is
designated in the xorg.conf file, well, things may not work as well as
it should, and maybe not at all.

Auto detection  works great [in most cases] so we should probably only
create a config file as last resort.. (only if something doesn't work
right).

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