On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To me, that seems like it might be enough. The fact that ubuntu is > investing so much energy in this, makes me suggest that there might be > something to it. We've no idea how much "energy" Ubuntu is investing in this. We do know they are re-using code available in hwdata as seen in rhl/fedora. > Which sounds really stupid to me. It sounds like a trivial thing to me, > to modify X so that it doesn't exclusively prefer width over height, > resulting in the "hilarious situation" described. > Honestly it doesn't sound very hard at all to modify X so that it > understands that 1600x1200 is more preferable than 1680x1050. Go back and read what Mr. Jackson wrote..again...specifically the on-going work concerning using the maximum pixel clock setting to discriminate modes. > With that improvement, going only by my speculation, and the > indisputable opinions/facts provided by Mr Jackson, I suspect there is > room for value in the ubuntu-bulletproof-x method. Or perhaps there's none at all, and the work being done to expose inf file reading is a dead-end. Until we have a specific example inf file situation to discuss, it's impossible to go any further in this discussion. In any event I look forward to seeing Ubuntu supplied patches to Xorg to "fix" X so that we can all benefit from better hardware detection. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
