Hal monitor detection, was hal documentation

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:02 AM, Paul Scott wrote:

> Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > Reading this with interest too. I may be completly out, but things  
> > like those happend too me, then I run: 'Xorg -configure'. This  
> > gave me a xorg.conf file old fashon, and it then did work the old  
> > fashon. Waiting for hal too be better, it's a way out of the trouble.
>
> Thanks!!  Now I can get more work done on this box!


So why can 'Xorg -configure' detect my monitor frequencies correctly  
and whatever Hal uses can't?  get-edid doea correctly get the monitor  
name.  Does Hal depend on some kind of database to get the monitor  
spec's that my Dell M770 monitor may not be in?

Paul