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from: Randall Parker
date: 2006-12-31 15:16:06
subject: Is Linux a tower of babel?

From: Randall Parker 

In my on-going battle to get a Matrox P650 graphics card properly
configured for dual head portrait I saw this from a guy who tweaked the
driver to get it to work in Fedora Core 6 and SuSE 10.2:

http://www.tuxx-home.at/archives/2006/12/11/T22_52_32/
ChangeLog:

   * Added support for SuSE 10.2 (another curious Xorg version) in
install.sh


Note he says "another curious Xorg version". So this isn't the
first time he's run into a variation on how coders have made Xorg produce
different output or require different arguments for what ought to be
standard behavior.

How bad is this problem? How much are the distros making things different
from each other in areas where layouts and behaviors ought to be identical?

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