xf86-video-intel 2.0.0 and DVI

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Tue May 29 08:08:57 PDT 2007


Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:46:30 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> 
>>  >Julien Cristau wrote
>>
>>  >>Option "monitor-TMDS" "MyTMDSMonitorSection"
>>  >This should be "monitor-TMDS-1".
>>
>> Thanks! That did it, EDID info now works on the DVI.
>>
>> What is the significance of the "-1"? Where is this documented?
>>
> The output is named TMDS-1, as you can see with xrandr, and the
> configuration needs to match that.

As far as the significance, I think it's just planning ahead such that
cards that support multiple TMDS are consistently numbered TMDS-1,
TMDS-2 etc.

Col




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