On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello Branden, > > I get the feeling from this bug report that this is actually due to the X > configuration options chosing random monitor frequencies in no rapport to the > realities of the flat panel monitor he is obviously using. And thus X is > trying out frequencies that the monitor doesn't support, giving him a blank > screen. > > The fact that he solved the issue by outcomenting the monitor frequencies > tends to confirm this, and it is also coherent with my own experience, as well > as info i get from doing user support for the pegasos users. > > I would recomend that the X debconf questions about monitor frequencies allow > for the entering of an empty string, which would leave out the frequency > option of the config files, and the text above it be modified to inform the > user that he can let this entries blank if he has a monitor capable of DDC. Apparently you haven't looked at the TODO on the debconf-overhaul branch for several weeks: 1928 branden + #253607: Accept blank values for monitor sync ranges, which will omit these 1928 branden parameters from the config file, relying upon the X server's DDC routines to 1928 branden figure them out. Add warning to template that results might be suboptimal 1928 branden if this is done (XFree86 falls back to *very* conservative timings if DDC 1928 branden probing fails). So, essentially, you don't have to waste any more time trying to persuade me. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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