Bug#418377: Don't automatically set highest possible resolution as default
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 of real CRTs.
>
>>Maybe a good idea.
>
> Paul,
>
> Since you were the original reporter, could you see what you get if you
> add this option to the xorg.conf that got generated during the install?
I did not install this on my own machine, it was for a customer. It's
not so easy for me to do tests there.
But I think I have a machine here with the same specs. I will update it
in a few weeks from Sarge to Etch, then I can do some tests.
> By the way, note that with the very recent X servers, you won't need a
> xorg.conf at all unless you want to tweak things (especially the
> keyboard map). So, it is not clear that we will generate a xorg.conf
> just for this new option during the install :) We might want to see what
> upstream thinks about all this.
I can understand.
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
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