Bug 2330

Summary:	640x480 Default is to small to be useful.
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Jay Cotton <jay.cotton>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	ajax, alan.coopersmith, roland.mainz
Version:	6.8.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	5086

Description Jay Cotton 2005-01-19 09:55:04 UTC

When the server (ddc EDID) code is not correctly read or missing, the server
defaults to 640x480 screen size.  The problem is that many users are not able
to use the screen tools to fix the problem since they can't find the buttons
at the bottom of the app. windows.  

A sugestion is the make the minimum size 1024x768 as a useful defualt size.

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2005-01-22 12:24:54 UTC

i believe XP's default is 800x600, and at least KDE uses that as their minimum
size for UI design.

while we're at it we should bump the default color depth to 16bpp.

Comment 2 Roland Mainz 2005-01-22 13:24:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> while we're at it we should bump the default color depth to 16bpp.

What is the current default color depth ?

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2005-01-22 13:42:04 UTC

8bpp.  i humbly suggest that no desktop users actually use 8bpp anymore and are
actually confused by this default, as evidenced by a couple of other bugs along
the lines of "nv driver displays wrong colors for everything but the active
window".  vesa and vga should be left alone, but all the accelerated drivers
should default to 16bpp.

Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2005-02-09 07:32:43 UTC

not just a sun bug.

Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2005-11-18 10:49:49 UTC

I think we determined the 640x480 "default" is because the default HSync & 
VRefresh rates when DDC fails don't allow any higher resolutions - perhaps
default HSync ranges of 28-33 and VRefresh of 43-72 are a bit dated?

Comment 6 Daniel Stone 2005-11-21 09:17:28 UTC

alanc: the hsync would need to be ramped up a bit, yeah.  do we have specs for
vga, xga, and whatever, so we can get the default standard
works-everywhere-that-does-8x6 modeline?

Comment 7 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:25:09 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 8 George - 2007-03-09 10:43:20 UTC

Fixed in head.

The default sync rages now allow for 800x600.

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