https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706024 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706024#c15 Egbert Eich <eich@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #15 from Egbert Eich <eich@novell.com> 2011-07-21 15:21:52 UTC --- (In reply to comment #14)
(In reply to comment #13)
Better get rid of your old CRTs with broken or non-existing DDC.
What makes you think DDC (EDID?) has anything to do with this? CRTs offer a major feature lacking in mainstream LCDs: configurability. That means one using a CRT is not forced to use a particular (native) resolution that may not suit his requirements, lest choose from a limited number of poor quality (usually inappropriate aspect ratio) alternatives. Forcing resolution up to the maximum
A CRT usually provides a list of modes for it's aspect ratio which is in most cases just 4:3. It also presents preffered modes and even modes with detailed timing data to be used. In the vast majority you cannot get any better modes without excessive hand tuning.
the physics support (or even above) along with forcing logical density up, enables one to enjoy the maximum quality afforded by the hardware, without giving up quality and legibly sized text and other objects.
True, this is a corner case - but what does this have to do with the screen size? The monitor advertises a screen size which should be sufficient for dpi calculation (unless you want to do things like virtual where the screen size issue still isn't handled correctly. Most of what you are trying are corner cases anyhow.
FWIW, the most used displays in this building actually have working EDID, but all of those can be made to pretend they don't via a cable swap, thus facilitating testing to see whether software behaves acceptably when good EDID is not present, something most driver & X devs are apparently loathe or unequipped to do themselves. Consequently, I've been acquiring additional (free) CRTs as opportunity presents in order to ensure I need never do without before affordable fully configurable alternatives appear in the marketplace.
Fine, but please report those things to the upstream project. Maybe you can convince someone with developers skills and a lot of time on his hands that this seems worthwhile addressing. While I agree with you that this you are right I need to tell you that we here at SUSE are not staffed to deal with requests that address only minority use case. If you need something like this fixedd it's best to do it yourself and address this with the upstream project. Therefore reporting those issues here will most likely not get you the desired results and will only waste your time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.