Second call for X testers.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:52:58PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > We can assume that the if the user wants to do something so exceedingly
> > > rare, they will edit the config file.  This kind of setup is much less
> > > common than, for example, multi-head.
> >
> > no really Matt, we need to ask the question for the monitor resolution.
> > Talking with Branden about different monitors (when i commited a fix to a
> > sanity check), it come out that there are monitors with all kind of crap.
> > Single frequency monitors, decimal frequency monitors (like 50,5 Hz) and
> > so on. I really don't want to assume anything and that's why there are
> > tons of fallbacks into the scripts we implemented.
>
> I was not talking about the frequencies; by default those are not even asked
> at low priority during reconfiguration.  What the user is asked is two sets
> of questions about what mode they want.  This is something which does not
> happen in Debian.

Yes it does in debian too. I didn't change any template, it's only the
sequence in which they are asked that is changed and the two are only
swapped (that's mainly due to the order required by autoconfig).

> This is minor, of course; it is something which will only happen during
> reconfiguration, and most users won't need to do that, but since it is a
> divergence from Debian, I'm curious why it is necessary.

Yup.

Fabio

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