Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:43:44 -0700 | From | Audin Malmin <> | Subject | Re: Re: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. forXFree86 config |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:38:21PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jens Benecke wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:16:12AM -0400, Stephen D. Williams wrote: > > > > How does windows find these infos? Normally it doesn't even look for it. I > > have yet to see a Windows fresh install that does _not_ come up in > > 640x480x16. > > > > Is there someone working on "Monitor PnP" (DDC?) or something?, that would > > probably be the way to go. Steal infos from Windows is not bad, but not > > everybody has Windows. > > It is indeed DDC and the RedHat Beta (Lorax) currently uses ddc probing to > determine timings for your monitor.
XFree86 4.0 is supposed to do this as well... If only I owned a monitor which was new enough to support it........
-- Audin Malmin - amalmin@halcyon.com
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