f 16 beta in virtualbox

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 11:32 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 20:04 -0400, David wrote:
> 
> > There are some users that have older monitors that to not identify 
> > themselves so that the resolution is not properly set. With a true 
> > install or an install in a VDI. *Most* of those can never be set to 
> > higher resolutions because system-config-display was killed. Even after 
> > the proper video drivers for Virtualbox are built. That is the connection.
> 
> RANDR 1.2 has the ability to set arbitrary video modes at runtime.  I
> admit Gnome's display tool doesn't expose that, but I'm comfortable
> saying that's Gnome's bug.

What does 'arbitrary video modes' mean here, roll-your-own-modelines ?
If so, not exposing that is not a bug, but a feature. If you are saying
that there are nice, available modes that we could show in the
resolution combo, but missing for some reason, then yes, that would be a
bug. 

Matthias