On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:57:31AM -0800, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Yes, and I believe these questions should not even be asked per default. > > Notice that only x86 has read-edid, so there is hardly a way not to ask these > questions. Furthermore, just leaving the frequency lines out breaks horribly > for the older monitor with broken or inexistend DDC/EDID support. amd64, i386 and powerpc have working DDC probe support (the former two via VESA's VBE, the latter via /proc), and there are very, very, very, very, very, very, very few monitors out there that people actually use that don't have working DDC/EDID. Trust me, I've been there, and found out. -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>
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