screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Derek Broughton]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 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...
>>   
> Regardless removing the ability to easily change your monitor settings
> is a major downgrade in functionality rather than an improvement.

Nobody has "removed" the functionality - it just isn't available for all
hardware.  It never has been, afaik.
-- 
derek