[Grml] fun with x

[Martin Yazdzik]

On Thursday 03 August 2006 15:14, Wernfried Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:33:01PM -0400, Martin Yazdzik wrote:
> > #       ModelName    "Old Monitor (no DDC)"
>
> As far i understand the issue, your hardware doesn't support DDC,
> which is used to find out which sync rates your monitor uses.
> As a consequence X tries to guess some common frequencies, and
> obviously took the wrong ones. ;-)
>
> cheers,
> 	Wernfried

But, of course, it does - that is why I am perplexed.

edid recognises it immediately - there are almost no monitors in current use 
that do not support ddc, and the dell certainly does. 

Somewhere, some information is failing to go somewhere.




Best,
M

So the question is why, when edid knows what the monitor is, and every other 
distro I try certainly does, where the script is not pulling down the id.






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