On Sat, 8 May 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > > >> pretty easy: every recent graphic card is pci or agp, so it's detected > as > >> pci device and listed in the /proc file... > > > >>From what I understand, this would only give you the video card. The > >other half (and the more painful part in my opinion) is the monitor. Is > >there some way to auto-detect a monitor, or is this a lowest common > >denominator problem (i.e. small resolution and refresh)? > > Would it be in any way feasible to ask the user to put in his manufacturer's > floppy and get the necessary data out of that? The format must be known, > because every manufacturer must supply data for the Windows registry.
For Corel, maybe. For Debian, I doubt it. It would severly limit the number of monitors supported (I have 4 around here, no disks, and no M$ to be seen). Simple resolution, vsync and hsync work for me. When I don't know, a conservative guess would work. I believe Red Hat does this. Options? Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | | -- UNIX System Administration Handbook |
