Hi folks, I have a short question: I'm using Xfree86 with a ATi Rage Pro card and a Compaq monitor. Unluckily, this monitor does not support DDC, and now I have noticed this:
When I use XFree86 4.1.0, everything works fine using the ati driver. When I use Xfree86 4.2.0, again with the ati driver, my screen remains blank, although X starts up successfully. After a little research, I noticed that adding the line Option "composite_sync" "false" to my XF86Config file solves the problem. The question that arises now is this: Since the monitor doesn't support DDC, it cannot tell X if composite sync should be used or not. Now, it seems that the ati driver in 4.1.0 assumed to *not* use composite_sync by default if a DDC probe fails, while 4.2.0 seems to do the opposite: It seems to enable composite sync by default if a DDC probe fails. I'm wondering if there is a specific reason why this has been changed. Any comments are welcome ;-) Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
