On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 19:00 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > They look better than an error message telling you your X server won't > > run. > > Only when the message isn't a lie. Just because it didn't start doesn't > necessarily mean it can't be made to start. 'Tis better just a message than a > literally distorted untruth. Well, I guess we could disable all acceleration in nv. > > (you're wrong anyway; vesa is perfectly capable of 16x9 resolutions. It > > Not all I listed are TV (16:9) modes, nor did I list every possible native > mode of current and recent displays, much less future displays. Did you try > 1280x800, 1680x1050 or 1920x1200? > > > does 1600x900 fine on my Vaio Z, and it did 1600x768 on my Vaio P after > > some poking of ajax). > > 2.08:1? Velly intellestink. I am an adherent of weird bits of Sony hardware... > >...it's still better than no X. > > I don't think everyone would agree. Some might take as an inducement to > figure out why and end up with satisfactory support instead of VESA molasses > or funhouse. Any 'fix' for this is going to be molasses, but it may be a bit less funhouse, true. I'm just not sure anyone is going to want to spend any time poking the nv driver code any more. No-one has wanted to for a long time. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
