On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:22:28AM +0000, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Scott Lampert wrote: > > > I'm having trouble getting DDC to work with my Dell P1110 and my Matrox > > G550. No matter what options I add or remove from my device section I > > get output similar to: > > > Oddly enough, when I run "X -configure" it reads the EDID information > > successfully and puts the information it garners about the monitor into > > the XF86Config.new file. > > There was dispute about whether the mga driver should use the VBE > code to interrogation, or do it itself, and the current state is that > both methods are implemented (in MGAProbeDDC(..) and MGAdoDDC(...)) > and one is used by X -configure and the other in normal use. > > There are people who claim that one method upsets their system, > while others claim that the other method doesn't work for them. > > I was involved in the orginal, direct, implementation, before the VBE > method was added (when the mga driver was the only one to support DDC). > Since both methods work for me on my original Millennium > I've not had any incentive to persue that matter. > Inertia seems to have left the current state for a couple of years.
Does DDC require OS support, such as loaded I2C drivers? Kurt -- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
