On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Oliver Schallehn wrote: >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:31:35 +0200 >From: Oliver Schallehn <o.schallehn@xxxxxx> >To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" >Subject: AW: Adding new monitor info in old XFree > >Thanks very much. Yes, that seems to be sufficient. > >I chose the generic LCD and 60Hz entry, then adjusted the Hor and Vert >entries. > >This worked. > >Regarding the other question: When or how is the list of available monitors >being updated? Is there any chance doing this by downloading data or is this >automatically delivered with a new release? > >Not that important, but if someone knows... XFree86 does not have a list of monitors included with it at all. The database of Monitors is something which Red Hat ships with our OS products, and other vendors and distributions might ship with theirs as well however. I maintain the MonitorsDB database in Red Hat Linux, and plan on turning it into a more public project in the future, which hopefully will benefit the entire community rather than every distribution maintaining their own database privately. My goal is for different distributions and/or individual contributors to submit new monitor information into the core hardware database project and then everyone can pull the information from there. Currently this project is video-hwdata on sourceforge, and will include also a more modern replacement for the "Cards" and other databases as well. The project is in its infancy currently however so there isn't much to see there yet. I'll be working on it over the next 6-8 months and hope to have something useful by the time people are shipping 4.4.0. For the mean time however, to update your MonitorsDB database, submit a bug report to your particular Linux distribution vendor via their bug tracker. In your bug report, include the complete details of your monitor/display, and it is best if you include a copy of the Microsoft Windows .INF file from the manufacturer of the monitor, as we have tools which can scan the .INF file and generate the necessary database lines for all monitors the .INF file lists all at once. Hope this helps. TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
