Monitor on DVI-I not detected

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Fri Apr 13 06:02:17 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:51 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> Well, it's not just turning on a CRTC, but if you assume it's present
> when it's not, then you limit mode validation to the intersection of the
> two monitors.  And if DDC fails, then that means the default modes, i.e.
> 800x600.

Well, that was just a bug which is fixed in git now.

> Personally, I think it's best left as is (people connecting
> non-DDC-capable monitors -- i.e., monitors that need manual
> configuration anyway -- to DVI ports get to configure it, rather than
> people who don't having to manually override it).

I agree.


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