https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623250 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623250#c12 --- Comment #12 from Carlos Mafra <crmafra@gmail.com> 2010-09-02 13:03:06 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11)
(In reply to comment #10)
My laptop has 1280x800 and I use two different external monitors, one at my home with 1680x1050 and the other at the institute with 1920x1200. And for _both_ the Xserver default is useless and it makes no sense.
Hey, it's just the login screen (xdm, gdm, kdm), which shows this resolution. Imagine the external 1920x1200 monitor is turned off, but still connected (you forgot about that or even don't know that). The displaymanager will likely optimize everything for the big external screen and you can't reach any longer the gdm panel or even user/password text field. We had such bug reports in the past. No kidding! We really need a safe setup to avoid such situations.
You are right. I hadn't thought about that, sorry. But that also points out a deficiency in xorg, IHMO. Why can't we have _both_ screens showing the same things at their native resolutions? That's what the kernel seems to do while booting. I don't know the details, but from my observation it seems there is a huge opportunity to improvement here.
So is there no hope for me to get the resolutions correct in a flicker-free boot process? The kernel got it right already, that's what disturbs me. When xorg loads it screws up the resolutions which the kernel thought were good, and I thought the point with the kernel mode setting was to avoid this resolution changes from boot.
Good point, but not everybody is using more than one monitor with different resolutions.
Yeah, so I can wait till that becomes the standard or if some xorg hacker has the same problem :-) But from my user standpoint the kernel does a much better job than xorg now. During boot I get both screens working nicely together, each one at their native resolution. So I wonder why xorg can't do that too. In the above case you mention, there would be no problem because the laptop screen would be working with native resolution too.
So I am sorry to write all this, but as things stand now they don't look like they make sense. I fear that I will have to patch the xserver myself and use it instead, but that is painful and it will go away once I move to opensuse 11.4 etc.
Your decision of course, which we need to accept. We try the best to make most users happy, which obviously doesn't work out for everybody. That's the way it is.
Ok, thanks a lot. I felt out of the "most users" set, but hey, that's OK too. I will use my freedom to modify the sources etc once I have the time. I was simply hoping that this bug could be solved by other means.
Also I'm not sure why you're discussing this now in this bugreport. IMHO it belongs to Bug #537488.
Heh, right. But here is the bug where the conversation is, and I don't know how to reply to your present comment and make it appear in the other bug report. But I want to thank you. You made it possible for me to try to find my own best solution. That's what I like about open source to begin with! So all is fine, really. -- 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.