Package requests (Re: First impressions and bugs)

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 22:41, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michel Alexandre Salim (mas118 at york.ac.uk) said: 
> > Ah yes, just found it myself as well. There is a problem with it though
> > - it displays resolutions higher than the resolution set in XF86Config
> > (changable through System Settings->Display)
> > 
> > Found out about it the hard way - my 1400x1050 laptop LCD was configured
> > at 1024x768 even though the graphics card has 16MB of VRAM. Is there any
> > reason why this conservative setting is chosen by default?
> 
> I believe 1024x768 is the default in absence of a monitor probe
> that suggests it allows higher.
> 
Even when Generic 1400x1050 is manually selected? My monitor does
provide DCC information but I feel safer manually overriding.

Regards,

Michel