Re: [tlug] Adjusting screen resolution in Debian

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Evan Monroig wrote:
>   
>
> I have never met a video card that doesn't support VESA (ok, I'm
> young..), and what I usually do when I don't find the appropriate driver
> is tell xfree86 (or xorg) that it is a vesa card. Is that unsafe? If the
> card functions at 1024x780 under windows, I would think that it supports
> VESA.
>
>   
   Times change and one man's safe is another man's support 
nightmare.   If you asked me 5+ years ago about using VESA I'd probably 
have far more negative comments about defaulting to that than I would now.

   Which is to say, even with wacky Japanese devices (and their drivers 
too) VESA is a rather safe option to fall back on these days.

   Personally, I'm looking forward to the NoBrainer device option for 
[Xx]{free86,org} but I have no idea when that will come out.

Alain