why not use vesa driver as X default?

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, JoeHill wrote:

> Alex Maynard left a post-it on the fridge:
>
> > > From what I've garnered in seeing this exact question a few times before,
> >
> > I'm sorry about that -- I didn't realize it had been asked before.
>
> No no, that was 'a lot of people are thinking the same thing as you' :-)
>
> >  the
> > > prevailing opinion seems to be that the benefit of doing what you suggest
> > > would be outweighed by the costs. This is based on the idea that if vesa
> > > were default, the resulting display characteristics on newer NVidia and ATI
> > > cards would be clearly sub par. IIANM, the vesa driver does not support
> > > most/any of the features on recent video cards, and the result would, as I
> > > say, be more detrimental than any conceivable gain from defaulting to
> > > vesa.
> >
> > I'm sure you're right -- probably, I've just had unusual bad luck with
> > default drivers.
>
> Personally, I don't see why this could not be resolved using the method I've
> gone through with every install I've done (with Mandriva anyway, that I can
> recall): at the end of the install you need to configure X and test it with the
> config you've chosen. If it fails, you try a different driver/settings/etc. I
> haven't noticed if vesa is an option in there, but I don't know why it could
> not be.


I agree. What would be great is if they could automate this testing
process a bit for new users.  I'm guessing that while an experienced user will do something
like you describe many first time curious, but not committed, users would
simply reset back to windows.

>
> Strangely, no one from any of the major distribution's develepment teams have
> been asking for my opinion lately.
>
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