display refresh rate problems

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:49:36AM +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:10 -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > Could you please send me the output of ddcprobe (run as root)?
> >
> > daniel at merlin ~ $ sudo ddcprobe
> > [...]
> > edidfail
>
> Aha, that's the problem.  Your monitor is actually incapable of doing
> DDC -- we can't even pick up the name of the monitor automatically.
>
> Fabio, would you accept a fallback of prompting the user with a list of
> monitors and resolutions generated from the Linux Monitors Database or
> whatever it's called if DDC fails?

Not at this point in time. It is too intrusive. I have been evaluating
this option already a while ago and the list is generated from known
ddcprobe so there is not much gain here. It will also introduce either one
question with a looooooooong list of options or 2/3 questions with smaller
lists.

We will look at it for hoary.

Fabio

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