Re: Current Xorg behavior is unfriendly at best

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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.

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.

- ajax

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