On 9/2/07, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora(a)filteredperception.org> wrote:
To me, that seems like it might be enough. The fact that ubuntu is
investing so much energy in this, makes me suggest that there might be
something to it.
We've no idea how much "energy" Ubuntu is investing in this. We do
know they are re-using code available in hwdata as seen in rhl/fedora.
Which sounds really stupid to me. It sounds like a trivial thing to
me,
to modify X so that it doesn't exclusively prefer width over height,
resulting in the "hilarious situation" described.
Honestly it doesn't sound very hard at all to modify X so that
it
understands that 1600x1200 is more preferable than 1680x1050.
Go back and read what Mr. Jackson wrote..again...specifically the
on-going work concerning using the maximum pixel clock setting to
discriminate modes.
With that improvement, going only by my speculation, and the
indisputable opinions/facts provided by Mr Jackson, I suspect there is
room for value in the ubuntu-bulletproof-x method.
Or perhaps there's none at all, and the work being done to expose inf
file reading is a dead-end. Until we have a specific example inf file
situation to discuss, it's impossible to go any further in this
discussion. In any event I look forward to seeing Ubuntu supplied
patches to Xorg to "fix" X so that we can all benefit from better
hardware detection.
-jef