Accepted xresprobe 0.4.24ubuntu1 (source)

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Jerone Young wrote:

> This is a bit off topic. Post feisty xrespose should be totally
> eliminated and replaced. I've seen your proposal for this here:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleXModeSelection

and here's the Debian X roadmap for Lenny:

http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/XSFTODO

work has already begun to not rely on xresprobe and discover, althought 
AFAIK it isn't public yet

> The elimination of xrespose would be great as it would resolve
> problems as seen here for example:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xresprobe/+bug/27667
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/67369
>
> Distros such as Suse do not seem to have these problems with monitor
> detection. While Fedora/Redhat is now totally dependent on X to detect
> optimal resolutions for the monitor.
>
> This just seems to be one of those issues in Ubuntu that can easily go
> away by replacing xrespose with something more common and up to date.

xresprobe et al can easily be dropped, right.. but to make X work without 
them isn't necessarily "easy" :)

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