after grub, stripy screen

[Grant Allan]

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:59:28PM +1300, Grant Allan wrote:
>> >> i think it is a bug that anaconda does not set up /etc/inittab to
>> match
>> >> the settings used when installing.  eg. if the user types "linux
>> >> resolution=800x600" when installing, then that same setting should be
>> >> put
>> >> into /etc/inittab.  what does anybody think about that?
>> >
>> > Good, no, great idea.  Actually it installs at a fairly low common
>> > denominator because initially it doesn't know what it's working with
>> > or even if it can work with it.  When it gets to X configuration, if
>> > it can come up with something workable (as far as it can tell) it
>> > writes that info to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>> >
>> > /etc/inittab is not the right place by any stretch of the imagination.
>>
>> hey, thanks!  do you think i should make an official suggestion
>> somewhere?
>>  is that easy to do?
>>
>> cheers,
>> grant
>
> Umm, I think one of us misunderstood.  What I said was that it is
> already doing The Right Thing _if_ it figures out the video card
> correctly.  In your case it did its best to configure for the card,
> and since it couldn't see your side of the monitor, it went with what
> it saw on its side.  And it was wrong.

I see.  My suggestion then, amounts to "do not do The Right Thing if the
user is installing with a custom display setting".  My thinking is along
these lines: if the user has gone to the trouble of running the installer
with a custom display setting, then there is most like a good reason that
they chose to do that (eg the default display settings were not working). 
I think that anaconda doing "The Right Thing" is presumptious in that
case.  But that is just my own opinion.