On Fre, 2003-03-07 at 14:48, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I wonder how the driver knows what the laptop display size is ? do you > > specify or does the monitor tell the driver about it with ddc ? > > The driver gets it from the graphics chip. > DDC info on these systems comes from an external mointor if one is > connected. DDC for the builtin screen does not exist.
It does here. There are other methods to fall back to though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
