On 9/18/07, Adam Jackson ajackson@redhat.com wrote:
The reason I'd rather guess too large is, for any given run of the X server, the initial mode is also the largest mode in the mode pool, and is the largest mode you can get for that instance of the X server. So the user can RANDR down to the resolution they want - and gdm will remember it, and set that mode the next time they log in - but you can't RANDR up. Also because, really, you can make the UI bigger quite easily, but shrinking things smaller than a pixel is sort of tricky.
Good point about not being able to RANDR up, however you can system-config-display up. If your display blanks out due to high resolution, you can't RANDR down, system-config-display, or for most, use said machine to get online assistance. If th display blanks out, the text make be too small for some to read and navigate to a tool the know nothing about called RANDR (maybe it has a better name in the Gnome menu)