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Re:Farewell, macOS by Symbiote on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:29AM (#25110841)
There's a tool to show the EDID [1] information.

  $ sudo apt install read-edid
  $ sudo get-edid | parse-edid
  ...
  Modeline        "Mode 0" 594.00 3840 4016 4104 4400 2160 2168 2178 2250 +hsync +vsync
  ...
Perhaps the mental model comes from using Windows? I don't know what combination of hardware, dongles, docks and monitors causes it, but some of my non-technical colleagues end up with their monitors in non-native resolutions with Windows 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificatio...

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Re:Farewell, macOS by chrismorgan on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:45AM (#25112234)
Hmm, yeah, I guess a long time ago some screens did tend to end up with the “generic plug-and-play monitor” driver and have it not know what the true resolution should be. I’d forgotten about that, not having seen it happen for at least ten years.
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