"John Danielson, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since one can get to console from the X login screen a few ways, one does not > need the option to autoload a desktop at all in the installer, IMHO.
many don't like having [xkg]dm running, so it's needed > Simply > set the X login to a lower res and color depth that is VESA if the video test > failed-- branch past that setting of res only IF the video test suceeded. alas video test doesn't work well during install and is disabled on many cards. > most > video cards still in use can handle 640x480x256 (8 Bit) color, so poke a > default like that, overwrite\replace after video test suceeds. No video test, > default to fail action. A lot of pre-1996 monitors have a lack of a good > versatile 800x600x16 bit mode set, and those things last so long if well > treated that there are lots of them handed down and in use. installation already defaults to 800x600x16 with not many people yelling ;p in any way XFree "vesa" module is not very good, much safer is "fbdev" (as redhat learned...) > Doing just that would eliminate the hardest thing for many newbies to grasp > and work around-- video failure during boot(as THEY see it, boot ends when > desktop is up and running). > > I agree about the recommended part, but the basic assumptions need to be > filled in if the advanced button is not selected and choices not completed > through any needed choice testing. Default minimal until better tested, > insofar as video goes. I would myself just change recommended to basic or > SAFER. i don't think automatic configuration is so bad that we have to go down that way. There are problems, but most of them are better fixed than work-arounded the way proposed above. *Many* people would be pissed of with a default config using framebuffer with a low resolution (KDE/Gnome are hardly usable in 800x600, and don't even try 640x480!)
