[Bug 3731] Re: Xorg resolution falling back to 640x480 and/or 800x600 when h/v freqs incorrect

[Bryce Harrington]

Michal:  For automatic device detection, the plan is to let xorg do full
autodetection of both the monitor and the graphics card.  That is still
a work in progress (although it already works well for many
configurations).  This is actually considered the *true* fix for this
bug 3731, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how well it works.
You can test it by commenting out the Device and Monitor section in your
xorg.conf and the two corresponding lines in your ServerLayout, starting
X, and see if it picks up the right device, card, and resolution rates.
This should work for Gutsy, and *maybe* in Feisty, but there's still a
lot of hardware that probably won't get detected right.

Thanks for the suggestion to save the screen settings, that sounds like
it could be useful.  I'll experiment with implementing that once I've
got more of the basics in place.

Sitsofe: thanks, I hadn't seen that spec before; it's got a number of
interesting links for me to check out.  I'd noticed a few proposals for
fallback modes in the wiki, so this is definitely an idea that's been
kicking around a while.

Tony:  Actually the plan for the LiveCD situation is rather than pop
into the failsafe mode, to just go ahead and boot the LiveCD with vesa
or vga or fbdev, so BulletProofX won't be relevant in that situation.
However, the displayconfig-gtk tool will be present in the Admin menu,
so if you got booted into a low resolution, you can use that to select
your monitor/device/resolution, test it with the Test button, and then
go into the installer like normal.  I hope the installer will then
notice you've already configured xorg and reuse your changes, but that
may take some work to iron out the kinks.

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Xorg resolution falling back to 640x480 and/or 800x600 when h/v freqs incorrect
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