Bug 254051

Summary: Why Xorg doesn't have the failsafe mode?
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 Reporter: Benjamen Aceler <aceler>
Component: X.OrgAssignee: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
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Priority: P5 - None    
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Description Benjamen Aceler 2007-03-13 14:39:06 UTC 
If something goes wrong with SaX2, the user will see black screen with the command line. User is not ready for this! Why Xorg does not have something like "Safe mode" with standard vga driver, or, better, "revert to last known good configuration" big button?

It is not too hard to realize - just set up X scripts. For example, Red Hat starts redhat-config-video when Xorg fails.

I can do some work, if you want to.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2007-03-13 15:07:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 246158 ***