On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:46:08AM +0200, Fabrice Lorrain wrote: > Hi, > > In the last 5 months, I encountered twice LCD flat screens without > hardware control or with half functionnal hardware control. > > The proper way to configure those screens was with software through the > ddc protocol. The only software I'm aware of working under linux is > ddccontrol [1] which is not in sid yet. > > Bored DD's might take some pleasure to warm the current frozen ITP [2]. > Users eyes might bless your name for that in the etch time. > > @+, > Fab > > [1] http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322774 > Imho there should be an X implementation of this: * driver side should be possible entirely from within the ddc module: the ddc module could probe and initialise the ddci slave address for the driver when handed the I2C bus for ddc and could handle everything else from there. * most work will be in the actual utility and the backend used for that. But then, mode related control is very much unchartered territory for X.
Luc Verhaegen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
