what other probes are available to snoop video capabilities?
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:45:54AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Erinn writes:
> > It's not so much that debian is difficult to use, but it doesn't
> > automatically detect hardware as well as the more commercial, friendlier
> > distro's.
>
> Debian includes several hardware detection packages (kudzu, for example).
> It just doesn't have one in the installer.
i've tried 'discover', 'mdetect' and 'read-edid' (that last one
locked up my debian worse than The Blue Screen Of Death on my
wife's machine). what other probes are available -- is there a
magic phrase that brings them up on google or maybe even
packages.debian.org? (kudzu generates a nice write-up on what it
finds, but i'm no closer to the resolution i once had under
potato...)
$ apropos probe
clockprobe (8) - a Textmode/XWindows pixel clock probe
modprobe (8) - high level handling of loadable modules
$ apropos video
ramsize (8) - query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode
rdev (8) - query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode
rootflags (8) - query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode
vidmode (8) - query/set image root device, RAM disk size, or video mode
xviddetect (1) - a script for detecting PCI video cards
that last one at least gave the old college try. (can't figure
out how to try other resolutions -- but it'll let you tweak the
one you've got...)
--w.trillich, still glumly viewing the universe through a teensy
800x600 porthole...
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:
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