Is there a way I can access this information from X through HAL or some other nice interface? I've not seen anything like that. Your thinking that the only reason for detection would be to configure X, which in this case it's not. Best Regards, Martin Owens <div>On 8/17/06, Bill Nottingham <<a href="mailto:notting@redhat.com">notting@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Martin Owens (<a href="mailto:doctormo@gmail.com">doctormo@gmail.com</a>) 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 </blockquote> </div>