Accepted xresprobe 0.4.24ubuntu1 (source)
Timo Aaltonen
tjaalton at cc.hut.fi
Fri Apr 13 11:47:52 BST 2007
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" :)
t
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