when you start X and the monitor is completly turned of the frequenties are wrong

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:20, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:58:45 +0200, Kristof Vansant <de_lupus at pandora.be> wrote:
> > When you start X and the monitor is completly turned of the frequenties
> > are wrong. Is there no way to let X detect that I turn on my monitor so
> > that it then scans for the right frequenties? Even after X is already
> > started. Or when I switch monitors for example without restarting X.
> 
> Its wrong because it couldnt grab the DDC information. AFAIK there is
> no way around this.

Of course there is, you just use the last value that worked.  99% of the
time it's the same monitor, it just wasn't connected or powered on.

Lee