[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE
Leroy Tennison
leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Fri Aug 19 04:37:12 CDT 2005
Chris Cox wrote:
>SUSE historically did much of its own hotplugging since most of
>it was missing from Linux. Now they have switched to trying
>to use what Linux (proper) comes with... IMHO, it still needs
>some maturing.
>
I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my thinking.
>If you come to the meeting this Saturday, you'll see what
>I'm talking about. Or you can run hwinfo yourself.
>
>
Yes, ran hwinfo. Detected quite a few things but missed others (my
ViewSonic A70 monitor and, of course, the mouse).
>SUSE breaks their man pages down sometimes into smaller
>packages. You will need to install the X11 man pages
>separately. They don't get installed by default. Whether
>that is is good or bad is subjective. The X11 man pages
>are a large set... but at the same time, it's still just
>text... so not that big of deal (IMHO).
>
>
Oh, that explains a bunch. I tried 'man xorg.conf', 'man XF86Config',
'man Xorg.conf' to no avail. Now, is there any easy way to tell which
packages are installed for which help hasn't been installed?
I appreciate the feedback, thanks.
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