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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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".

People using old monitors probably still have an xorg.conf that they've been
using with it for years, unless they just dug it out of a closet or rescued
it from the recycling pile.

X.Org has discontinued a lot of the old input drivers already, and I wouldn't
be surprised to see older video drivers like rendition and i740 join them
eventually.   There are always going to be limits to mixing and matching
components of vastly different ages in your system, whether it be trying
to run 2010 Xorg on a 1995 kernel or a 1995 monitor.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System