Giving up on Linux...

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Jos Vos wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:07:52PM +0000, Paul wrote:
 
> > > (Intel graphics sometimes support BIOS-supported modes, which means
> > > you're stuck with 1024x768 on a 1400x1050 notebook.)
> > 
> > Yep
> 
> So all the people reporting problem in this area (seen reports about
> both Acer and ASUS in the same area) just lie?  Did you really *try*
> all laptops?

perhaps i'm misreading this, but if it's the intel graphics that's the 
limiting factor, this is a hardware issue that would be a limiting factor
for both linux and windows, no?  so it can't really be considered a 
weakness of linux if it affects all OSes equally.  or am i must 
misinterpreting the above?

FYI, i've been using red hat and fedora on a couple generations of dell
inspiron with nvidia chips, first at 1400x1050, and now at 1600x1200,
and for the most part, it's worked fine.  

rday