[PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Thu Nov 25 12:03:56 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:01:07PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:51:04PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:44:24PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > The common case for hitting this case now is that you have a projector 
> > > behind a display mux that doesn't do DDC. Most projectors are able to do 
> > > 1024x768.
> > 
> > "common case, "most", ...
> > 
> > This is different from
> > 
> > "every single time", "all".
> 
> We don't handle serial mice without an xorg.conf either. If your 
> hardware's old enough to have reached the age of consent in most of the 
> world, and if you're then running a modern X.org on it anyway, writing a 
> static configuration seems like a sensible thing to do. KMS defaults to 
> 1024x768 without KMS, so if you can't manage that you've failed long 
> before you get near X.

Just because KMS does it, doesn't mean X should do it too.

Luc Verhaegen.


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