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,

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 lik

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

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 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 b

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

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

2007-04-10 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

2007-04-09 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 > f