Request for comments: Laptop improvements

[Matthias Saou]

Adam Jackson wrote :

> Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> 
> > - xorg-x11-drv-i810 <- it does not work with 945GM card,
> > - on this laptop as well as on Dell Latitude D505 915resolution patch is 
> > needed to set native LCD resolution (1680x1050 and 1400x1050). If there is a 
> > way to handle this issue without the patch - great. Otherwise, the patch 
> > should be packaged, like in Ubuntu.
> 
> Known bugs, fixes coming in new i810 driver.

Yup. But then let's add :

Installation time detection and support for the BIOS resolutions
overriding (since IIRC it's a configuration directive in xorg.conf).

Ideally, this would mean that if the installer detects a native screen
resolution that isn't in the list of BIOS advertised resolutions, then
if the driver (typically intel, do others do the same?) allows
resolution overriding, then the user should be prompted which
resolution to override with the native one. This is because once one is
overridden, it can't be switched to anymore, and some might be useful
for games or full screen applications, or most importantly external
displays.

Matthias

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