I'm running Xorg on Solaris Nevada build 81. With an LG CRT, it reported that the monitor did not provide EDID information, and chose 640x480. When I tried it with a Viewsonic CRT, it did get EDID info and chose a reasonable resolution. It was the same with an Acer flat panel. In both of these cases, the desktop application to set the resolution showed a whole range of resolutions. This is nice convenient automatic behavior. In the first instance, though, the desktop app showed only 640x480 and provided no way to change the resolution, even though the video card and monitor were capable of it. I realize that I could create an xorg.conf file with other resolutions in a variety of ways, but it would be much more convenient to do this through the desktop app. Can this be accomplished somehow, perhaps by probing the monitor or reading the information from a table?
The defaults for no-EDID setups have been such that you'd get 1024x768 for quite a while now, and most drivers implement dynamic screen resizing above this.
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