Re: Ging 0.1.0
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> >
> > Uhm that suggests that read-edid is not really needed, and frequencies
> > should just be removed from xorg.conf.
>
> This works better with the onboard prosavage chipset and (unknown) packard
> bell monitor that I'm using for gnu/kfreebsd too.
>
> With debconf, I had to guess the frequencies, which didn't work out so well :)
> I looked around for read-edid, and looked into trying to compile it, but I
> gave up when I saw it directly talks to the BIOS/interrupts; figured that
> wouldn't compile without some work.
>
> Anyway, I knew Xfree/Xorg was supposed to cope with this stuff, so I tried
> just removing the frequency data from the X config file, and it worked just
> fine.
>
> read-edid *is* a nice little tool, but I think the main problem is that
> debconf is overzealous about choosing when the frequencies need to be
> manually specified.
Wouldn't be so strange (seen this before with xserver-xorg debconf templates).
I'm adding CC to debian-x so they can comment on this.
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Robert Millan
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