Ging 0.1.0

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:55:06PM +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> >
> > Uhm that suggests that read-edid is not really needed, and frequencies
> > should just be removed from xorg.conf.
> 
> This works better with the onboard prosavage chipset and (unknown) packard 
> bell monitor that I'm using for gnu/kfreebsd too.
> 
> With debconf, I had to guess the frequencies, which didn't work out so well :)  
> I looked around for read-edid, and looked into trying to compile it, but I 
> gave up when I saw it directly talks to the BIOS/interrupts; figured that 
> wouldn't compile without some work.
> 
> Anyway, I knew Xfree/Xorg was supposed to cope with this stuff, so I tried 
> just removing the frequency data from the X config file, and it worked just 
> fine.
> 
> read-edid *is* a nice little tool, but I think the main problem is that 
> debconf is overzealous about choosing when the frequencies need to be 
> manually specified.

Wouldn't be so strange (seen this before with xserver-xorg debconf templates).

I'm adding CC to debian-x so they can comment on this.

-- 
Robert Millan