On 21 Mar 2002, Pixel wrote: > it works on any recent hardware i've tested. Are they really that much > hardware for which DDC is failing?
Oh, yes. Only yesterday I saw it fail for a G400/Nokia 447Pro combo, which rendered too large fonts (stretched bitmaps *shudder*) in KDM/KDE. And I've seen several cases where DrakX and XFdrake only offer 640x480 and 800x600 for modern (<3 years) hardware. I've written about that before. Ironically, the best results we've had have been with our computers that use a BNC connection, because that forces DrakX and XFdrake to skip DDC. How do other OSs deal with failing DDC? Is there a chance to detect when DDC is failing and prompt the user as a fall-back? Regards, Mattias
