On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 12:04 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > The problem is that adding a "if this looks like this, and this looks > like this and this looks like something else" to do a workaround like > not specifying the modes does *not* lead to the code being maintainable. > It's already bad enough, there's no need to make things worse. :-) The logic I was thinking of would be "If we have information about supported modes, then specify a mode. Else keep quiet and let X work it out for itself". > But, doing a hack to look at the fb mode on ppc and try that resolution > probably isn't terrible to do in anaconda [1]. Does it need to be ppc-specific? If DDC fails, just try to get a sane modeline from the framebuffer. > I'm afraid it still isn't going to help with some of the radeon > problems, though :/ See separate mail re the dynamic clock lockup. -- dwmw2