[Wftl-lug] Dreaming about desktop Linux: The first community TuxZine wiki article?

[Harry Holt]

Xorg actually *does* have pretty good monitor detection, unfortunately a lot
of monitors are still around that don't provide EDID information, and even
some that provide kind of broken EDID information.  So I would assume this
will eventually just kind of go away, as older hardware is replaced with
EDID monitors.



On 1/5/07, Charles McColm <twccomprec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Linux is amazing, and I'd recommend it long before recommending
> Windows to anyone. But there are some things that Linux isn't perfect
> with. For example: when we sell a used linux box we sometimes get
> someone calling us up to say "the screen is all messed up." What's
> happened? They've taken the box home and plugged it into a different
> monitor than we had connected to the box when we set it up. Telling
> someone to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg then follow all the
> prompts isn't really an option, we get them to bring the whole thing
> in and fix it. I don't recall ever having the same complaint from
> Windows customers (but we almost always get the "my computer is slow
> because it's infected with spyware and viruses" complaint). It would
> be great if Xorg had better monitor auto-detection and adjustment.
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Harry Holt, PMP
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