On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 22:41, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Michel Alexandre Salim (mas118(a)york.ac.uk) said:
> Ah yes, just found it myself as well. There is a problem with it though
> - it displays resolutions higher than the resolution set in XF86Config
> (changable through System Settings->Display)
>
> Found out about it the hard way - my 1400x1050 laptop LCD was configured
> at 1024x768 even though the graphics card has 16MB of VRAM. Is there any
> reason why this conservative setting is chosen by default?
I believe 1024x768 is the default in absence of a monitor probe
that suggests it allows higher.
Even when Generic 1400x1050 is manually selected? My monitor does
provide DCC information but I feel safer manually overriding.
Regards,
Michel