James Richard Tyrer wrote: > [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. >
Another possibility would be plug the card, don't connect the monitor. Start with a basic livecd with the configuration program and access the program via the RS-232 port(dumb terminal) or via telnet using a network. No need for header dip switch or anything only small cd image and another computer/dumb terminal(you can find that if you have a strange monitor, no multisync display or TV). If with all the possibility you can't do anything, ask someone to do it for you. For the people developping in the embedded market they don't care for the chip to be live on the first boot since they program the system from the ground-up they will set the display setting and write it to the prom latter after devellopement is finished. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
