> To the people down-voting you: X is from a time when devices actually came with manuals.
To a degree. At least from my experience, something like a monitor and video card manual would provide you with enough information to filter through a list of example modelines to figure out which ones may work. Yet they did not provide enough information to create your own modelines.
> devices turned into magic black box consumables that are expected to "just work" while being undiagnosable when they don't.
"Just work" and being diagnosable are not mutually exclusive concepts. For the most part, the Linux ecosystem reflected that and still reflects that. I suspect the shift in behavior actually came from end users. They were less willing to look through the diagnostic messages and far less willing to jump through hurdles for things that they thought should just work.
To a degree. At least from my experience, something like a monitor and video card manual would provide you with enough information to filter through a list of example modelines to figure out which ones may work. Yet they did not provide enough information to create your own modelines.
> devices turned into magic black box consumables that are expected to "just work" while being undiagnosable when they don't.
"Just work" and being diagnosable are not mutually exclusive concepts. For the most part, the Linux ecosystem reflected that and still reflects that. I suspect the shift in behavior actually came from end users. They were less willing to look through the diagnostic messages and far less willing to jump through hurdles for things that they thought should just work.