Ging 0.1.0

[Hassard, Stephen]

Robert,

What's the easiest way to integrate this change back into the ging CD? I
don't currently have GNU/kFreeBSD installed on a HD so I'm not quite
sure how you'd like me to proceed.

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.

Thanks,
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Millan [mailto:rmh at aybabtu.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 2:31 AM
> To: Hassard, Stephen
> Subject: Re: Ging 0.1.0
> 
> 
> [ please keep the CC to the list, they might be interested ]
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 01:17:16PM -0800, Hassard, Stephen wrote:
> > > > You might want to consider excluding the monitor frequency lines
> > > > (HorizSync and VertRefresh) from xorg.conf and let it 
> figure out the
> > > > proper refresh rates itself.
> > > 
> > > I didn't know xorg could do that.  Isn't read-edid the normal 
> > > way to solve this
> > > problem?  (unfortunately not ported yet)
> > 
> > As far as I know you don't specifically need it. I don't 
> actually have
> > the package installed on any of my debian boxes that I'm 
> doing this. I'm
> > pretty sure that just removing refresh lines has worked 
> fine since the
> > 4.2/4.3 era of xfree86.
> 
> Then this change would belong in xserver-xorg.config.  When 
> read-edid is not
> present _and_ user didn't specify any particular frequency, 
> no freq list
> should be generated at all.  This would probably mean adding 
> an "Auto" option to
> the "Simple, Medium, Advanced" template.
> 
> Do you think you could have a look at this?  I'm trying to 
> push changes in
> xorg-x11 rather than adding more to the x11.diff hacked patch.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Robert Millan
>