On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 23:44, Frans de Boer wrote:
Still, the other issues remain but adding a modes line to the xorg.conf file help to solve the resolution changing and 2.6.35(.1) resolves the latency issue. Really, xrandr is a solution for which you need to have at least 3 degrees to make it work (little exaggerating :)). I mean, user friendliness has gone out of the window here. Hm, must have had a false notion picked up along the line that most OSS developers care about the possible normal end users. Sorry, my mistake.
Generally speaking, the new Xorg works very very well. It's only a very small number of users that are facing issues after the change. sax2 was a great tool, but it lacked a maintainer going forward. It was brought up, with a request for volunteers.. no one stepped up.. it was dropped. That's the harsh reality of OSS. When new features some in to play, the older and sometimes very reliable methods die off. Look at Beagle and how much effort and pain went into that... it's essentially dead now. the Xorg auto detect works in more than 99% of the cases. The less than 1% that have special use cases are left to the fall back.. creating their own xorg.conf or tinkering with xrandr. It seems to hit hardest on those using high-end old CRTs at high resolutions. CRTs are really... getting harder to find and subsequently harder to support as Linux evolves. I can understand why someone doing work on image editing or video editing may need the CRT features (more accurate color, higher resolutions, and crisper display)... but those who write the software we use are not typically in that very small user group... thus.. the software they write ends up being more for the majority... those who are using TFT monitors... that provide proper ID info reporting and can be easily autodetected and set up by Xorg. User friendliness in Xorg has increased a thousand times(or more) for the seething masses (ie users like me)... at the unfortunate expense of the dwindling few such as yourself. :-( C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org