[haiku-development] Re: EDID Problem
- From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:18:15 +0100
On 10/04/2008, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'd like to add a helper function to ProposeMode(), too, such that you
> > can specify the limits of your card & monitor, and it does all the
> > magic (er, computation) for you. The intel extreme driver currently
> > doesn't really have a proper implementation of it yet.
>
>
> While I hate to make this any more similar than trying to configure X
> (ugh) - would it be useful to somehow leverage all that monitor
> brand/model information from XOrg and allow the user to manually
> specify their monitor model if desired?
>
Definitely not IMHO. I'd rather the system booted in VGA or whatever,
and presented a list of standard resolutions in the Screens preflet
which the user can pick themselves. If they can pick their monitor
they can just as easily try cranking it up a few notches.
Euan
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