screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Rashkae]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> 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:
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>>>>>>>             
>>>>>>>> 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?
> 

That depends on whether or not you can get a readable display with
nothing in your xorg.conf to specify the monitor type.  If you have to
manually input mode lines in your .conf file to get anything working, I
call that fracking complicated enough to make sendmail configuration
look like childplay.