Comment 38 for bug 188792
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(In reply to comment #16)
> > I’ve never seen a CRT which has a 5:4 aspect ratio.
>
> There were several on the market back when 1280x1024 was a top-notch
> resolution.
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> At that time, only the Mac-specific monitors in that pixel-class were
> designed for 1280x960. Everyone else went for a 5x4 1280x1024.
Well everybody used 1280x1024, but I'm not too sure that the monitors were really 5:4. I've got a 19" CRT here for instance which clearly is 4:3, and there were lots of similar monitors around that time. And especially the cheaper ones, while they could run 1600x1200, it was unusable due to fuzziness and restriction to 60Hz, so everybody just used 1280x1024 on them. But you may be right some might indeed have been 5:4. Anyway, even if the monitor in question here really is 5:4 physically, there's nothing in the edid data which would indicate this - in fact edid just shows it's 4:3. So there's absolutely nothing the driver could do to figure out it should indeed chose a 5:4 resolution by default.