Non-DDC monitor paramters for RandR

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:59 +0100, Keith Packard wrote:
> For environments which don't provide DDC information, the only current
> way to set modes is to define custom modes and send them to the X
> server. Would it make sense to instead provide monitor parameters and
> let the X server pick modes from the VESA standard modes that it has
> internally? 

Both might make sense actually.

> We'd just send sync ranges like are present in the config file and EDID 
> information?

I don't think that'll suffice for digitally connected panels though.


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