about X resolutions on non-laptops (xresprobe)

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

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

It might lead to confusion. It is not always the case.

> 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.

That's exactly the point of my previous mail. I need to know what is the
"safe default" since it is a combination of monitor/gfx card. On my system
i can see that the correct resolution is the second best one. Is it true
for everbody out there?

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

Yup :-)

> 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.

And that wouldn't work for me, since with the nv driver the resolution is
too high and doesn't work properly. The nvidia binary driver detects it
correctly and uses the second best.

Fabio

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