On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote: > > > > Uhm that suggests that read-edid is not really needed, and frequencies > > should just be removed from xorg.conf. > > This works better with the onboard prosavage chipset and (unknown) packard > bell monitor that I'm using for gnu/kfreebsd too. > > With debconf, I had to guess the frequencies, which didn't work out so well > :) > I looked around for read-edid, and looked into trying to compile it, but I > gave up when I saw it directly talks to the BIOS/interrupts; figured that > wouldn't compile without some work. > > Anyway, I knew Xfree/Xorg was supposed to cope with this stuff, so I tried > just removing the frequency data from the X config file, and it worked just > fine. > > read-edid *is* a nice little tool, but I think the main problem is that > debconf is overzealous about choosing when the frequencies need to be > manually specified.
Wouldn't be so strange (seen this before with xserver-xorg debconf templates). I'm adding CC to debian-x so they can comment on this. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
