Monitor Detection via DDC

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Aug 17 08:52:10 PDT 2006


Martin Owens (doctormo at gmail.com) said: 
> I was looking at the posibility of adding DDC Monitor detection to HAL, one
> of the problems is that DDC sometimes disrupts the monitor and is normaly
> only used at boot time.

Why? X can determine the appropriate monitor automatically on startup,
without the complications of more x86 emulators or real-mode code in
some cases.

Bill


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