On Thursday 03 August 2006 15:14, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:33:01PM -0400, Martin Yazdzik wrote: > > # ModelName "Old Monitor (no DDC)" > > As far i understand the issue, your hardware doesn't support DDC, > which is used to find out which sync rates your monitor uses. > As a consequence X tries to guess some common frequencies, and > obviously took the wrong ones. ;-) > > cheers, > Wernfried
But, of course, it does - that is why I am perplexed. edid recognises it immediately - there are almost no monitors in current use that do not support ddc, and the dell certainly does. Somewhere, some information is failing to go somewhere. Best, M So the question is why, when edid knows what the monitor is, and every other distro I try certainly does, where the script is not pulling down the id. -- "...children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them merely as raw material for some scheme." --Russell _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
