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I don't miss having to type xf86config and answering a lot of question, some of witch required reading the manual for the monitor and the video card.
by marcodiego 5y ago
I don't miss having to type xf86config and answering a lot of question, some of witch required reading the manual for the monitor and the video card.
- ajross 5y agoYou realize all that tuning[1] still happens today, right? The difference is that your Linux box with a display is now a boxed product from Google or Samsung or whoever and they did it for you. In the 90's we were sharing a big communal integration effort. [1] And more, though the details have changed. No one cares about "mode timings" since all that synchronization happens across the link in the panel hardware. Now it's all about panel self-refresh drivers and backlight control and DMA threshold tuning.