Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Migowski wrote: > Sounds good. I didn't know about those tools before, but I think the > detection is something we should do at one of the first things during the > install-process. Of course, I disagree. The main purpose of the debian installer is to get debian *installed*. It doesn't

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Migowski
Hi, On Friday 03 November 2000 03:17, you wrote: > Assuming you mean DDC for getting monitor frequencies and such, X4 > already does this automatically. If not there are apps out there like > read-edid that can do this in user-space. Combined with things like > anXious (or Progeny's dexter) this

Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread edo79
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Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread edo79
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Re: Monitor autodetection

2000-11-02 Thread Randolph Chung
> even if this can only be done with a special kernel, what's wrong with > probing the monitor. I am new to the list, so i don't know if the your > installer will install X at boottime, which I highly recommend. Most users > from Windos haven't seen the DOS-Prompt before, and having to use the