Great reply!

Thanks a million.

Btw, nice project, good luck.

Cheers,

Oliver

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Oliver Schallehn wrote:
> 
> >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:31:35 +0200
> >From: Oliver Schallehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Content-Type: text/plain;
> >     charset="us-ascii"
> >Subject: AW: Adding new monitor info in old XFree
> >
> >Thanks very much. Yes, that seems to be sufficient.
> >
> >I chose the generic LCD and 60Hz entry, then adjusted the Hor and Vert
> >entries.
> >
> >This worked.
> >
> >Regarding the other question: When or how is the list of available
> monitors
> >being updated? Is there any chance doing this by downloading data or is
> this
> >automatically delivered with a new release?
> >
> >Not that important, but if someone knows...
> 
> XFree86 does not have a list of monitors included with it at all.  
> The database of Monitors is something which Red Hat ships with 
> our OS products, and other vendors and distributions might ship 
> with theirs as well however.
> 
> I maintain the MonitorsDB database in Red Hat Linux, and plan on
> turning it into a more public project in the future, which
> hopefully will benefit the entire community rather than every
> distribution maintaining their own database privately.  My goal 
> is for different distributions and/or individual contributors to 
> submit new monitor information into the core hardware database 
> project and then everyone can pull the information from there.
> Currently this project is video-hwdata on sourceforge, and will 
> include also a more modern replacement for the "Cards" and other 
> databases as well.  The project is in its infancy currently 
> however so there isn't much to see there yet.  I'll be working on 
> it over the next 6-8 months and hope to have something useful by 
> the time people are shipping 4.4.0.
> 
> For the mean time however, to update your MonitorsDB database, 
> submit a bug report to your particular Linux distribution vendor 
> via their bug tracker.  In your bug report, include the complete 
> details of your monitor/display, and it is best if you include a 
> copy of the Microsoft Windows .INF file from the manufacturer of 
> the monitor, as we have tools which can scan the .INF file and 
> generate the necessary database lines for all monitors the .INF 
> file lists all at once.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> TTYL
> 
> -- 
> Mike A. Harris
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