screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

Rashkae wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> However, a good case can be made that all those special rules and
> oddball cases that were accounted for in the old debian xserver
> configuration scripts should not have just been tossed out.  I know
> several people who have switched from Ubuntu to Debian because their
> hardware would not play nice with the new system, but works well with
> Gutsy or Debian Unstable.
>
> If anyone in a position to do something about it is reading this op-ed,
> I think it would be a good idea to resurrect the old xserver
> configuration scripts as an optional package that people with difficulty
> can try.  (Or maybe include the xorg text mode configuration utility.
> I'm assuming it's still part of xorg, though that may be a unsafe
> assumption.)
>
>   
Don't over complicate it.  Just put a pull down box or something on the 
screen resolution applet for selecting your monitor type.  How 
complicated can that fracking be?

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