Ging 0.1.0

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:51:38AM -0800, Hassard, Stephen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Uhm that suggests that read-edid is not really needed, and frequencies should
> just be removed from xorg.conf.
> 
> I'm adding CC to debian-x, let's see what they think.

It works in some cases, but not all.  xserver-xorg uses xresprobe these
days anyway, which works far, far, far better for getting DDC and EDID
information on i386.  Still needs a fixup for amd64 and other non-i386
architectures, though.
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