On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :
> :I'd bet it's done using DPMS. See if the XFree86 4.x code can tell you
> :anything about the monitor's capabilities.
>
> It's up? Very cool, they actually put the prerelease up 2 days ago!
> 47MB download, yummy! DGA is going to be sooooo cool.
>
> Unfortunately it looks like the DPMS stuff is still a bit primitive.
> Shoot. I'll check it out, though. The 3.3.3 I128 driver (that's
> the number 9 card) does not appear to support DPMS at all.
>
> SGI's site has a whitepaper on the flatpanel but it's a bit spare on
> control protocols. They do say something about an I2C bus but I dunno
> whether that is what DPMS uses or not.
XFree86 has an i2c driver in it for talking to monitors so it sounds as if
it should see it.
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