[5865] in Release_7.7_team
cluster resolution assumptions revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Oct 25 15:41:02 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:40:25 -0400
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
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It's been longstanding policy to install linux athena PUBLIC=true
machines at a monitor resolution of 1280x1024. Unfotunately, at some
point in the Dell gx745 procurement cycle, the "2007FP" monitor (4:3
aspect ratio) that came with the test system was replaced with the
"2007WFP" monitor, which is 16:9 of thereabouts. These would be a lot
less ugly running at 1680x1050, and have mostly already been modified
thus via vigilante system administration.
I propose modifying the installer and fix-xconfig to support 1680x1050 as
the default mode for these displays. Which as I would normally just
submit a patch, but since it's an Issue With Some History, I figured I'd
mention it here first.
