Detecting screen disconnection

Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
Sun Oct 31 16:46:50 PST 2004



On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Ely Levy wrote:

> Hey,
> I was wondering if there is a way to know when someone disconnect a screen
> from the computer. It can be very usefull for a notifying against theft
> systems and for anti users making mess with hardware systems;)
>
> I thought about ddcing the screen every few minutes but I'm nto sure how
> good idea that is.

ATI cards have hardware that can sense which inputs are connected or 
disconnected and even send an interrupt on changes.

                          best

                            Vladimir Dergachev

>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
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