On 2011/05/11 09:40 (GMT+0200) Křištof Želechovski composed:
This is all good and well, except that it takes us several years back. If
I change the monitor attached to the graphics card, I have to repeat the
process. I think it would be reasonable to expect the X server to pick the
highest resolution for the highest frequency, not the other way round. Or
at least to be configurable to do so.
Modern displays are LCDs mostly, some LEDs. Either usually have at most two
refresh choices, generally 60 & 75, with the existence of the latter mainly
for compatibility with gfxcards that prefer the higher or can't even do 60 at
certain resolutions. I've never been able to detect visible difference
between operation at 60 and at 75 on any LCD. They're all designed to
function perfectly at 60. Besides that, they all have a preferred mode, which
is invariably a 60 mode. All of this means any fussing over refresh would be
for the virtually exclusive benefit of users of old and dying hardware. It's
not unlikely to think devs responsible for code that would need to be altered
to accommodate your desire might not have CRTs to test on any more, making it
hard to provide even if they wanted to.
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