On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:09 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > Peter Jones wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:53 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > > > >>Additionally, DDC probing via ddcprobe only works if the video > >>BIOS implements it correctly and handles all of the connected > >>displays in a sane fashion, which in practice is rarely true. > > > > > > Well, PPC gives EDID data through OF, but this has its problems too -- > > primarily that you only get a resolution and a number of colors, not a > > real modeline. > > For the short term, it would be nice if someone were to > reimplement ddc-probe to use x86emu or some other emulator > so that VBE could be used uniformly on all architectures > at least. That would give reasonable consistency between > architectures even if it wasn't as complete as what the > X server has built in. well.... if X has this info.. would there be a way for anaconda to get to this knowledge (when available only of course) so that at least post install it can do something reasonable?
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