about X resolutions on non-laptops (xresprobe)

[Mark Shuttleworth]

But from your previous emails it seems there is some confusion even if 
the probe succeeds.

I'd like to *start* with a safe default, then allow the user to say 
"wider" and "higher" to increase horizontal and vertical resolution till 
he gets the one he wants.

Anyhow, that's Hoary, we can play with it after Warty :-)

I don't like the idea of dropping back to the second-best resolution. On 
LCD, the top resolution is usually the only one that looks good.

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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>>For Hoary, we should certainly TRY the modes from top to bottom, asking
>>the user if the mode works.
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>I am not sure if this is the right thing to do. If the first probed
>resolution doesn't work, we will ask the user at least 2 questions and it
>will take a lot of time to wait the timeout from the first one + the time
>to start X a N amount of times, until it works. It would be only one if we
>ask him directly which resolution he would like to have if the probe
>fails.
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>Fabio
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