Bulletproof-X

[techieMoe]

I just saw an interesting article for something coming up the pip in Ubuntu 7.10:

Ubuntu Xorg maintainer demonstrates bulletproof X

Any thoughts? I'm skeptical that it will work in *all* situations but it could keep me from having to edit so many xorg.conf files.

[carlosponti]

Sounds interesting i like spending less time in the CL as of late.

[valan]

This isn't all that special. I remember using other distros that did the same sort of thing years ago. Can't remember what distros those were, though. I think Ubuntu is just making a big deal out of it to get more attention.

[bigtomrodney]

To be fair they have done a lot of work on it that just wasn't there before. They initially evaluated using Sax2 from SUSE which is really the only other config tool of this nature I have seen.

Because so many people see Ubuntu as a newbie distro or at least a gateway there have often been (largely inaccurate) reports that you can't run Ubuntu without editing xorg.conf directly. I think this was a necessary step and is really bringing Ubuntu (and consequently Linux in general) to a stage where it is almost completely accessible to those without experience. My experience has been that very little hardware if any is missed during the install. SUSE used to be the distro for this but they have kind of fallen behind.

You also get all of the codecs you need within easy reach. I know some love it and some hate it but you have to admit, Ubuntu is certainly becoming the 'just works' distro.

[Vergil83]

The funny thing is I haven't had problems with X for years (this includes notebooks with ati cards). My personal problem is hiberante/suspend.