Second call for X testers.

Matt Zimmerman matt.zimmerman at canonical.com
Tue Aug 31 13:10:23 CDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I think it is redundant for the user.  Why would they want to specify a
> > different set of modes than what their hardware can do?
> 
> virtual desktop? we don't know and we can't assume what they want to do.
> Perhaps they don't even know. Also we can't guess the vertical frequency
> and that's a problem. The horizontal one has a ratio to 20:1 with the
> resolution (more or less... see changelog) and can be calculated.

We can assume that the if the user wants to do something so exceedingly
rare, they will edit the config file.  This kind of setup is much less
common than, for example, multi-head.

> yeps.. it selected 800x600 as resolution and 1024x768 as virtual size.

But why?  Can it be fixed?  "1024x768" was lised in the config, but it
sounds like it did not find a default mode for it?

-- 
 - mdz




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