Great reply! Thanks a million. Btw, nice project, good luck. Cheers, Oliver > 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 > -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
