some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Jonathan Andrews]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 21:41, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:14 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:45:19PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > right now so this can't 100% apply), then why not have the default X
> > > configuration just be something sane given the monitor.  ie, if it's a
> > > flat panel, you want the native resolution of the panel, otherwise you
> > > want just a basic resolution.  It's not like logging in requires a lot
> > > of screen real estate.
> > 
> > The only "safe" resolution without DDC is 640x480 at 60Hz 31.5Khz (ie VGA)
> > unless it is a panel. gdm doesn't work at 640x480 in our setup (bugzilla'd
> > about RH8, never fixed). (TV out is an exception but we don't really handle
> > TV out sanely yet anyway so its not a revert)
^^ I would just like to stick my foot in and say that redhat break
TV-out installs on most hardware with "setsysfont". This seems to render
most ATI based cards black in way that even starting X doesnt recover
from.

Anyone know if this is fixed in core3 ?

Thanks,
Jon