some changes for (slightly) faster boot

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:45:19PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> right now so this can't 100% apply), then why not have the default X
> configuration just be something sane given the monitor.  ie, if it's a
> flat panel, you want the native resolution of the panel, otherwise you
> want just a basic resolution.  It's not like logging in requires a lot
> of screen real estate.

The only "safe" resolution without DDC is 640x480 at 60Hz 31.5Khz (ie VGA)
unless it is a panel. gdm doesn't work at 640x480 in our setup (bugzilla'd
about RH8, never fixed). (TV out is an exception but we don't really handle
TV out sanely yet anyway so its not a revert)