Current Xorg behavior is unfriendly at best

[Adam Jackson]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 16:30 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 9/15/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:46:03AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >>> Ever since the behavior of having Xorg guess resolutions has been
> >>> implemented, I have little to no luck with it.
> >> It's been pretty good to me. What video cards are you using?
> > 
> > Aside from the one in my smolt profile, I've also attempted in
> > Parallels on a Mac, and I believe an embedded Nvidia chipset on an HP
> > machine, sorry, can't recall details more than this
> 
> It might be worth taking a look at how debian and ubuntu do it, with 
> dexconf and xdebconfigurator -
> 
> http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/8/xdebconfigurator.html
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out how dexconf, via xdebconfigurator I 
> believe, seems to more correctly configure X to use 1024x768 or larger 
> under qemu, wheras xorg by itself as is configured with f7/f8t2 only 
> comes up in 800x600, which looks pretty lame.

X can't tell when it's running under qemu.  All it knows is that it's
talking to something that looks like an old Cirrus Logic card.  The qemu
authors have repeatedly refused to give X any hint that it's really
something better so we can pick larger resolutions by default.

- ajax