Bugzilla – Bug 106036
yast in text mode can't load Graphics Card & Monitor module
Last modified: 2005-08-23 09:40:34 UTC
If I'm in a virtual console then yast seems unable to load the module pertaining go graphics card & monitor. It doesn't hang - nothing happens. With Konsole, it loads the graphical program as expected.
Created attachment 46778 [details] yast2 ncurses version log
what happens if you call sax2 from the console instead of yast ? Does the program start there ? Are you sure there is no other X-Server which you have access to ? If there is another X-Server currently running the program will start there even if you are working on the console Please check. Thanks
I did have X server running. Once I shut it down by changing to runlevel 3 then sax ended up starting up whether called by yast or directly. I had thought it didn't work in the console because previously I had installed beta 2 and chose to install nvidia drivers via the YOU script. X wouldn't work after that and neither would yast or sax2. In the past I though I could change graphics setup without an x server though.
Ok, so this seems to be working as expected if I understand things correctly. SaX is always trying to detect if there is a X-Server running which the user calling sax has access to. This is because the user may want to change the settings of the X-Server he has access to and if that server is running SaX will load it's configuration and provide it to the user. If there is no X-Server running or the user has no access to it sax will start its own X-Server and will NOT read the current configuration because it may be broken because of the fact that no X-Server is running using that configuration.
>If there is no X-Server running or the user has no access to it sax will start its own X-Server and will NOT read the current configuration because it may be broken because of the fact that no X-Server is running using that configuration. That's what it is doing now. But on the previous install (also beta 2) where the X configuration was broken, *nothing* happened. That's what I thought was weird. There was no way to re-configure the graphics setting using the sax tool. I didn't post that as a bug because I read that if you weren't supposed to if you used the nvidia installer. So..... not sure. I guess since I can't reproduce it, might as well close this one.