Current Xorg behavior is unfriendly at best

[Douglas McClendon]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:46:03AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>> Ever since the behavior of having Xorg guess resolutions has been
>>> implemented, I have little to no luck with it.
>> It's been pretty good to me. What video cards are you using?
> 
> Aside from the one in my smolt profile, I've also attempted in
> Parallels on a Mac, and I believe an embedded Nvidia chipset on an HP
> machine, sorry, can't recall details more than this

It might be worth taking a look at how debian and ubuntu do it, with 
dexconf and xdebconfigurator -

http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/8/xdebconfigurator.html

I'm still trying to figure out how dexconf, via xdebconfigurator I 
believe, seems to more correctly configure X to use 1024x768 or larger 
under qemu, wheras xorg by itself as is configured with f7/f8t2 only 
comes up in 800x600, which looks pretty lame.

I don't know if getting xdebconfigurator to work on fedora is possible. 
  It looks like a conglomeration of various tools, none of which is 
apparently yet so capable that debian/ubuntu feel it can be relied on 
exclusively.

For instance, I suspect the -r option uses this read-edid tool, which I 
was using on a mandrake livecd I built 6 years ago, to good effect.

If you want to try it out to see what it is capable of, I suggest just 
burning and booting ubuntu-7.04, or perhaps a recent build of the 
debian-gnome-livecd

http://live.debian.net/cdimage/weekly-builds/

Good luck,

-dmc