[PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Thu Nov 25 10:24:29 PST 2010


On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 01:05:09PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> But most people, I would wager, prefer 10x7 to 8x6 as a default.
> 
> It would be nice if dialogs were that good, but a lot of them assume
> 10x7 or 12x8 at a minimum.  If you have an internal panel what's
> ending up with anything other than the native panel timing are you in
> trouble already.  For external monitors most from the last 10 years
> are geared towards 10x7 or larger which seems like a sufficiently
> large time horizon for bumping the default.

Nope, there are still a ton of those monitors around. The time when ddc 
started to happen, is also the time when better monitors came about.

So:

if (!conf && !ddc && !driver_info)
	fishbowl = true;

Luc Verhaegen.


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