[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 11.2 and odd OpenOffice issues

[Chris Cox]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> Hmm, do you know what the option is called?  The reason I ask is that I
> couldn't set my monitor resolution higher than some strange value like
> 900x600 (don't remember what it was, not sure I want to know) until I
> ran sax2 and it created an xorg.conf file.  After an X restart I could.
>  I didn't make any special settings in xorg.conf but sax2 may have.

  Option        "AutoAddDevices" "off"