https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706024
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706024#c14
Felix Miata
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 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. 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. Whether any hardware I use for testing has working EDID or not shouldn't bear on the resolution of this. Broken EDID exists outside this building, and likely will for many moons to come. As previously noted via Keyword, this is a usability (aka configurability) issue. Automagic results simply do not suit everyone. The visually challenged do not deserve zero action on this. 1-How to configure configurable hardware with supported drivers via xorg.conf.d/ files should not depend on which hardware one has the misfortune to be faced with: a-Choice of monitor identifier string shouldn't produce different behaviors among available chips or drivers. As long as it does, the sample files should address it, or the doc portions of them should be removed in favor of nudging users toward more complete documentation. b-[not addressed by comment 13]While on Intel (865G at least) it is sufficient to have only 50-monitor.conf for DisplaySize and PreferredMode to be applied as expected, on both rv200 and rv380 radeon it is required to also have both 50-device.conf and 50-screen.conf, each with appropriate lines uncommented, lest the entirety of 50-monitor.conf be ignored. 2-Some users will at least for a time try to copy and paste from what used to work, given that comprehensive X configuration tools users used to depend on don't even exist any more. 3-Until DTEs provide a big single easy to find knob to scale all desktop sizing up or down, manual X configuration, which is global, will remain more efficacious for (arguably most) visually challenged users than hunting down font size, theme and other settings in settings windows that initialize at sizes too small or otherwise difficult for them to navigate without pain, or at all. -- 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.