> > I appreciate any time and help which can be offered. > > Getting X to pay attention to a custom setting has > become increasingly difficult. They ignored EDID monitor > info for 20 years, then instantly transitioned to ignoring > user specified settings. I waged a battle several releases > ago documented here: > > http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/easy-linux.html > > I doubt any of the specific things I found will help, but > perhaps the general technique will work: Look at the xorg > log file for the message that says why it ignored your setting, > then look through the source of the X server and driver for > your video card to see where it prints that message and if > there is some setting you can change in xorg.conf to make > it get farther. Iterate till success or you throw yourself > off a high building :-). > > Or if you really want to perform a service for the linux > community, you could travel the incredibly steep learning > curve on EDID and xorg software and provide a new module > for X that lets you plug in custom EDID info to override > the stuff it tries to get from the monitor (shouldn't take more > the 3 or 4 years to come up to speed...) > -- As the number of years to retirement is getting into the single digits, I might just do that. Thank you for the suggestions. Bob -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
