[IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:31 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
>    > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
>    >> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look
>    >> very good.  I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default
>    >> instead.  (It might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating,
>    >> but even if that's the case we should consider fixing it for
>    >> qemu..)
> 
>    > It's the graphics card qemu emulates (Cirrus).  The answer to
>    > fixing it is to get something more reasonable emulated within qemu
>    > than an ancient Cirrus Logic chip ;-)
> 
> I just booted the Ubuntu 8.10 live image on the same (Rawhide) kvm
> install and it's using 1024x768 by default, which is much more pleasant:
> 
>    (--) CIRRUS(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
>    (**) CIRRUS(0): *Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
>    (II) CIRRUS(0): Modeline "1024x768"x75.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz)
> 
> Perhaps there's a patch we can pull?

The "patch" is that they use an xorg.conf and hard-code 1024x768 as
their default resolution.  We don't use an xorg.conf at all[1] in Fedora
and instead rely on the X server to be able to probe things.  Cirrus
hardware doesn't support any form of reasonable DDC and thus it goes
with its fallback which is 800x600.  Given that most of the hardware
which ends up using the fallback paths is old and that hardware is the
hardware most likely to have problems with > 800x600, it's not really
safe to change that.

Jeremy

[1] With the exception of on the XO, where we still have to create one
because the driver is lame ;)