Re: [tlug] Screen resolutions with 64MB

[Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Just curious,

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:38:41PM +0900, Josh Glover wrote:
> On 03/11/06, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >When one does xorgconfig, the via driver isn't listed.  It's a bit of a
> >nuisance, and I confess, I found it out by doing X -configure, which I
> >always consider laziness.

	Why do you consider this laziness?   I consider this one of the
things I absolutely hate about X.  I see tons of effort being into just
auto-detecting many other devices (USB, Firewire, mice, ethernet cards)
on bootup.   I don't see why a graphics card has to be a special case where
you tweak the x<insert version du jour>.conf file to death until you finally
get it running.  MacOS and Windows have been doing a pretty decent job
I think in this case from a user standpoint for years.   
	I see many distributions that aim for the desktop also put incredible
amounts of effort to get this to 'just work' on install as well.  I 
understand there will be devices that won't 'just work' and in
this case it will require tweaking until the correct parameters are found
but imo this should be a corner case rather than the defaults.  I really
appreciate 'X -configure' being available (and doing a pretty darned good
job) in the Xorg releases.  It really has taken a lot of the drudgery of
having to stare at a command prompt for hours while trying to remember
that I forgot to include option-tucked-far-far-away in manpage that
finally enables X11 to launch.

> 
> However, as Larry Wall points out, laziness is a virtue.
	Amen.

Alain