*- On 8 May, Brandon Mitchell wrote about "Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal " > 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
Many modern monitors are 'plug-n-play'. I don't know how it all works but they are able to tell the video card/drivers what frequencies they support, etc. 'Plug-n-play' could be tried first, then either ask or guess conservative. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
