On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Marek wrote: > I noticed that a lot of things can and is detected correctly using > X -configure (like vga card) > but a lot of things needs to be done (I use 4.2.1.1 currently), among others > monitor > modes detection (through dcc - which misses that part?),
Yes, X -configure does DDC, but doesn't put the modes into the config file. I did look at ways of doing it, including using gtf to generate the standard timings, but I didn't get as far as a way of integrating this info into the list of available modes. To do so now would be a significant change, and I wouldn't be happy if anyone tried to do it for v4.3. There is just too much chance that it would have a bad interaction with something which wasn't found until after we shipped. > Is anything new has been/is going to be done with that in upcoming X > release? > Also if someone's working on it (or not), can I help? If you want to do anything with monitor detection, read up on the source code to see how modelines are handled in the server, and how we can add more when we do DDC detection. We are really trying to do this at run time, not config time, since the monitor may have been changed since the machine was configured. One related thing; some flat screens and digital cards use non-default GTF paramaters - a secondary timing curve (since flat screens don't need as much time for sync flyback) xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/gtf.c doesn't yet support this. (In addition it only generates GTF modelines specified by vertical refresh; occasionally a GTF modeline specified by horizontal sync or pixelclock). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
