On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 14:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > The reason I started this thread is precisely because I have little tolerance > for being stuck in last century's 1024x768@96DPI lowfi on a display I've been > running 2048x1536 on for roughly a decade. Before xrandr, X could itself > perform (at least some of) the relevant the functions of cvt, gtf, xmode > and/or randr, from xorg.conf substituting a simple expression of desired > resolution for EDID/DDC to produce the user's preference, but can in many or > most cases no longer, instead requiring running in advance any or more of > several utilities, and putting their results in cryptic startup scripts > instead of a single config file. Progress on the absent DDC/EDID front has > been decidedly negative since randr (not that Redhat/Fedora is responsible > for Xorg development direction, or is it?). I'm really not sure what you're talking about here. AFAIK, you don't have to change anything but xorg.conf (or create a snippet in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d) to configure X to use an arbitrary mode on a display with no/broken EDID. The relevant parameters may be somewhat different from what they were five years ago, but they're not particularly any more or less complex, just different. You've always needed a Modeline for the mode you want to use in xorg.conf if your monitor didn't provide one via EDID/DDC. Sure, distros used to ship with a huge forest of pre-generated Modelines to get around this, but that was just nasty. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
