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

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Nov 25 12:14:36 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:06:58PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The absence of complaints about KMS exploding people's monitors implies 
> > that nobody is actually running modern software on these displays, and 
> > so catering for them is unnecessary. Our ISA support's somewhat lacking 
> > these days, too.
> 
> Yes, but the case here only gets hit when amongst others, KMS is not 
> working and not being used, so KMS is completely irrelevant.

We provide pretty much no support for hardware that's the same vintage 
as the monitors you're talking about. Why would the people using these 
monitors be running current versions of X? Why would they not be able to 
write an xorg.conf? Why are they more important than the people who have 
to deal with the more common cases of missing EDID?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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