[5866] in Release_7.7_team
Re: cluster resolution assumptions revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 25 17:37:29 2007
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From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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I think that's fine.
Panel can display some odd behavior if you move between displays with
different resolutions, but I think that ship has sailed several times.
andrew m. boardman wrote:
> 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.
>
