On 9/17/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 01:46 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Ever since the behavior of having Xorg guess resolutions has been
> implemented, I have little to no luck with it.
>
> Of at least 6 fedora installs I've done since then it has never
> guessed a resolution that is comfortable (for lack of a better word)
> and on some occasions it has required rebooting into runlevel 3 - not
> exactly a problem, but not very friendly. That ranges from desktop to
> laptops, native to VM ( Parallels ) and standard to widescreen
> displays.
I'm missing some details here. You say it guesses wrong, but don't say
what it guesses, or what you would prefer.
For lack of me knowing how to get the current resolution at the
console level, coupled with bad memory, I can't say that I remember
the exact values that it gets wrong. What it gets wrong, is the
attempted screen resolutions, often using out of range (for LCDs) or
extreme ( very small or very large) resolutions.
I do have an idea for choosing better, but it's really hard to
heuristic
this properly. Partly because the X drivers are still limited and can't
resize _up_ from whatever it chooses initially.
I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying here.
Still, why does xorg _not_ use what's in xorg.conf just because the
monitor is off?
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