Fedora 12, Xorg, and Apex Outlook KVM, - can't nail resolution

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed May 26 15:24:33 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:58:07 -0500,
  "Styma, Robert E (Robert)" <robert.styma at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> 
> <rant>Since the video card is correctly identified, if it cannot figure
>       out what the monitor is, it should let you use what the video
>       card can handle instead of locking you in to 800x600.
> </rant>

Except that using higher resolutions can damage monitors if they can't
handle it. Admittedly, this would be old CRTs, but the missing EDID case
is also likely to be due to old hardware.


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