On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:51:38AM -0800, Hassard, Stephen wrote: > > As far as I can tell from my Linux PCs, when no monitor frequencies are > > included, the display driver is queried for the info. I'm not sure what > > drivers this works with, but I've personally tried it with i810, nv, and > > ati without problems. vesa works by defacto since it only supports 60Hz. > > I can verify this functionality tonight with my freebsd 6.0 box with the > > nv driver, which seems to be behave the same. > > Uhm that suggests that read-edid is not really needed, and frequencies should > just be removed from xorg.conf. > > I'm adding CC to debian-x, let's see what they think. It works in some cases, but not all. xserver-xorg uses xresprobe these days anyway, which works far, far, far better for getting DDC and EDID information on i386. Still needs a fixup for amd64 and other non-i386 architectures, though.
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