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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:17:26PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:14:36PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> If this really is how you feel about the thing, then be consistent, and 
> rm -Rf everything except -intel, -ati and -nouveau. Because in your 
> world, no-one would be running anything else.

I think the benefit in supporting drivers for hardware that hasn't been 
manufactured in 16 years is pretty minimal, but nobody's saying "Don't 
support old monitors". They're saying "People using old monitors can 
write an xorg.conf, so we should default to the common case instead".

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org