F17 video annoyances, old hardware

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 12:20 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012/03/31 09:02 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 17:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >>  On 2012/03/30 14:43 (GMT-0700) stan composed:
> 
> >>  >  Nv should be dropped from the repositories for F17.
> 
> >>  Only when we know nouveau works for all antique NVidia chip classes.
> 
> > Why? If it can't do EXA on old chips and the server has no XAA support
> > any more, it's no use. You're better off with working vesa than broken
> > nv.
> 
> Ever tried to get VESA to produce 2048x1152, 1366x768, 1680x1050, 1600x900 or 
> 1920x1080? 

> Have you tried to buy a 4:3 display lately? Do all your CRTs work 
> as well now as they did when new if at all? Are you familiar with what 
> 1024x768 and 1280x1024 look like on a 1920x1080 display?

They look better than an error message telling you your X server won't
run.

(you're wrong anyway; vesa is perfectly capable of 16x9 resolutions. It
does 1600x900 fine on my Vaio Z, and it did 1600x768 on my Vaio P after
some poking of ajax).
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