screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Derek Broughton]

Rashkae wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

>> 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.

Wasn't this actually directly related to moving from XFree86 to Xorg,
though?  XFree86 needed everything manually configured, Xorg expects to
find most of the info from the hardware.  I have no idea if the XFree86
tools could work, now.

-- 
derek