screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Derek Broughton]

Robert Holtzman wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>>
>>> Damned strange. System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution works like a
>>> charm on my box. That doesn't sound like a bug to me.
>>
>> Sounds normal to me.  Bugs that affect _everybody_ rarely make it into a
>> stable release.  It's the ones like this that only effect some people
>> that cause the trouble...
> 
> What would make the bug only affect some users? Different hardware?
 
Definitely.  As usual, some hardware properly reports its capabilities to X,
some hardware is well enough known that we can work around it, and some is
just plain badly behaved...
-- 
derek