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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:25:05PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:20:49PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > 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".
> 
> Now cynical me is wondering how long it will take for you guys to decide 
> to also remove the option to configure this through xorg.conf.

There's plenty of legitimate cases where you won't get EDID, so the 
ability to manually provide frequency ranges isn't going to vanish.

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