Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Frans Pop schreef: (Please don't CC me on this BR, I'm not the submitter and I get them through the list anyway.) On Tuesday 10 April 2007 21:41, Brice Goglin wrote: It's hard to find a default value that would make all machines/users happy. The (new?) option TargetRefresh in the

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Brice Goglin schreef: Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:39, Paul van der Vlis wrote: A very high default resolution: 1920×1200 I think this is the theoretical maximum the CRT monitor (IIyama HM903D/DT) and VGA card, but in practise it was not OK. I think it is better to use a

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Brice Goglin
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Normally you use something conservative in such cases. Wy not make a default of maximum 1280x1024? I am not sure it will be enough on old hardware, and Debian runs on lots of old machines. The driver is already involved in the computation of the default resolution,

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Brice Goglin
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Frans Pop schreef: The (new?) option TargetRefresh in the Monitor section could be a solution for that. A default value of 75 or even 100 would seem quite sensible to me. This would probably disable the highest resolutions, at least on a lot of real CRTs.

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 10:00 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: People can always change in runtime to a higher resolution. Actually, that's not possible so far (without panning on a larger virtual resolution initially), though it will be with RandR 1.2 and advanced acceleration architectures like

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Brice Goglin schreef: Paul van der Vlis wrote: Frans Pop schreef: The (new?) option TargetRefresh in the Monitor section could be a solution for that. A default value of 75 or even 100 would seem quite sensible to me. This would probably disable the highest resolutions, at least on a lot

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-10 Thread Brice Goglin
Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:39, Paul van der Vlis wrote: A very high default resolution: 1920×1200 I think this is the theoretical maximum the CRT monitor (IIyama HM903D/DT) and VGA card, but in practise it was not OK. I think it is better to use a maximum default

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-10 Thread Frans Pop
(Please don't CC me on this BR, I'm not the submitter and I get them through the list anyway.) On Tuesday 10 April 2007 21:41, Brice Goglin wrote: It's hard to find a default value that would make all machines/users happy. The (new?) option TargetRefresh in the Monitor section could be a

Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default

2007-04-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:39, Paul van der Vlis wrote: A very high default resolution: 1920×1200 I think this is the theoretical maximum the CRT monitor (IIyama HM903D/DT) and VGA card, but in practise it was not OK. I think it is better to use a maximum default resolution of 1200x1024 for