enabling DDC in the face of broken monitors (was: Re: Intel 915G with Dell 2005FPW TFT no bigger resolution then 1280x1024)

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:54:33PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Yeah, turning on DDC will reveal a lot of bugs, at least initially...
> but the product development cycle of monitors is fairly short,
> and eventually the bogus monitors will be retired.

Dodgy monitors never die.

> And... market forces being what they are, the manufacturers
> building monitors that "just work" will get that reputation, and
> be rewarded...  and those that don't... Well, they'll learn or perish.

There'll always be a market for phenomenally cheap monitors where DDC
may or may not work.  It's the same in laptops.  Technically-minded
people might know to avoid anything with an Elite chipset and to stick
to Thinkpads or so, but some random person is going to walk into a
shop and go 'ooh, $500 laptop'.

Daniel, who forced DDC on the distribution he works full-time on a year
ago, for better or worse
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