[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, monitors without DDC are not oddball DDC is a recent innovation,
and a good chunk of the installed base doesn't have it.
The term "odd-ball" entered the discussion before DDC was mentioned. It
does not refer to monitors without DDC but rather to the sync
frequencies. Such monitors are *not* one of the VESA standard formats
and are *not* one of the formats which X supports without adding a
modeline to the configuration file -- they have odd-ball sync frequencies.
If there are high resolution monitors which will not run 640x480 @ 60,
70 | 72 fps and conform to VESA standards or common X modelines, we
should consider supporting them directly.
High-end monitors may never have it. Ignoring the installed base is
the kind of thing commercial vendors do, that makes it necessary to
have an OGP in the first place -- to get all the things done that
they ignore. I see no reason why I should be forced to discard
perfectly serviceable gear that cost a lot of money and has many
years of useful life left, just to keep up with standards churn.
I am not advocating this. I have recommended that the card be able to
store one EDDC string so that a so-called odd-ball monitor can be
supported. However my position is that it is reasonable that to support
such a monitor that your first boot would need to be with a VGA monitor
or with a TV set so that you can run a setup program, and then change
switches on the card and reboot with the odd-ball monitor.
--
JRT
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