Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 14:21 UTC
The Fedora Project has pushed out its 9th release. The release announcement is one of those fancy story ones, without much actual information, but an earlier email by Fedora project leader Paul Frields had some more interesting things to say.
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Ah, yes Modelines, yearly 1980.
Linux at it's worst. Still in 2008, struggling with basics...
Linux at it's worst. Still in 2008, struggling with basics...
New features comes with new bugs. The latest Xserver has a much improved architecture in certain areas. If you have to use modelines, then you are just working around a bug, autodetection usually works fine.
Edited 2008-05-14 10:10 UTC
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Linux at it's worst. Still in 2008, struggling with basics...
It's awesome that you manage to confuse both X with Linux and Fedora with Linux.
I haven't had to use modelines since, uh, 2002 and then only because I was using a Sun sync-on-green monitor with an Intel PC.
Member since:2005-07-06
Ah, yes Modelines, yearly 1980.
Linux at it's worst. Still in 2008, struggling with basics...
Linux at it's worst. Still in 2008, struggling with basics...
Yeah, and Windows detected my 24" LCD using its native resolution without the need for the manufacturer supplied inf file.
Oh wait, both Vista and XP used the default 1024x768 resolution; Fedora nv drivers worked just fine at 1920x1200x60 - so did the nVidia binary driver - should I assume that both XP and Vista still struggle with the basics?
Sadly enough OSNews doesn't support "-10 flamebait/trolling"...
- Gilboa
Edited 2008-05-17 04:24 UTC
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2005-06-29
There are some funny X issues in Fedora 9 GOLD. You will probably end up needing to specify a "Modes" line to your video card section in xorg.conf. This is the price you pay for bleeding edge. Hopefully it will work for you, but X is a bit funky until you tweak it just right.