On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, at 10:25pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote: >> XFree86 doesn't know about your monitor, >> per-se; rather, it knows about your card. > > I believe there is a means by which your monitor can itself communicate > its capabilities/attributes to the system, some sort of low-bandwidth > serial comms via the standard video connection...?
DDC (Display Data Channel). I don't know the details, but it does let the OS query the monitor for capabilities. However, I believe the OP meant something else entirely: XFree really does not know about your monitor. It knows how to tell your video card to operate at certain resolutions, frequencies, and such. You can tell it you have such-and-such a monitor, and it can then act accordingly when it does things with your video card, but all it really works with is the video card. The practical upshot being, if XFree does not know how to instruct the video card to operate in a way that will work with that SGI flat panel, then said flat panel will not be usable with XFree. More specifically, if the XFree driver for the video card is incapable of telling it to run at 1600x1200 on the digital output. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
