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 maximum default resolution of 1200x1024 >>>for X, even when the VGA-card and the monitor can do better. >>> > > > Paul, what do you mean by "it was not OK"? Did you get something on > display but it was ugly? Or nothing at all?
I got something on my display, but it was really ugly. You cannot read anything for example, and is was moving so you cannot click on something. >>I have seen the same on one of my own systems. Reassigning the report to >>the X.Org people for this. >>In my case the problem is that at that resolution the refresh rate is very >>low; but another problem can be that everything is just too small for >>comfort > > > It's hard to find a default value that would make all machines/users happy. Normally you use something conservative in such cases. Wy not make a default of maximum 1280x1024? > As long as the X server works, it might be easier to keep the current > behavior (use the maximal resolution) and rely on things like XRandR to > change the resolution at runtime if needed. Of course, some people might > get bored if they have to use xrandr every time they start the X server, > and thus will want to update their xorg.conf accordingly. Fortunately, I > also expect lots of people to be fine with the maximal resolution. People can always change in runtime to a higher resolution. The other way round is in many cases not possible. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/