Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop-research

From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@g.o
Cc: foser <foser@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo-desktop howto fix-up
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:10:09
Message-Id: 200311210509.46159.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo-desktop howto fix-up by foser
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4 On Thursday 20 November 2003 11:31 pm, foser wrote:
5 > I would even take it a step further and scrap the refresh rate mumbo
6 > jumbo. We have Xrandr and related tools now, X configuration should be
7 > kept to a basic guide to get it running decently. Then a more extensive
8 > xfree guide could be done and linked to for additional (expert)
9 > configuration needs.
10 Why not just detect X configuration at boot and save stuff like preferred
11 resolution etc somewhere else?
12 Of course, there might be a problem if the autodetection doesn't work, but we
13 could probably fallback to VGA so the user can manually configure it.
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15 Luke-Jr
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