On 9/17/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
