Monitor Detection via DDC

[Martin Owens]

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

On 8/17/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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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