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Bug#253607: #253607: xserver-xfree86: (debconf) X >4.3.0 is perfectly capable of detecting monitor resolutions, debconf should ask only if needed



On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:50:52PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 08:12:07PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:32:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Yes, "somehow".  You don't provide any code, or anything beyond the barest
> > > sketch of a design really, so this is going to have to wait until after
> > > sarge.
> > 
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=ddcprobe+source
> 
> This comment is too terse to be useful for me.  The top link is a set of
> compiled RPMs for Caldera machines.  In reviewing a Red Hat Bugzilla entry
> farther down the list, I see that ddcprobe may have as many problems as
> read-edid.  Perhaps just different ones.  :-P

read-edid only detects detailed timings (the ones you get back with
horizonal active, horizontal blanking, et al), not any of the standard
timings the monitor outputs.  I'm using ddcprobe to detect standard
timings, detailed timings (my hack), and monitor information.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                                <daniels@debian.org>
Debian: the universal operating system                     http://www.debian.org

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