[forum] Autodetection of monitors?

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:12:31PM +0200, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if this is a planned feature for XFree86? I am currently 
> using 4.2 so maybe it is already in 4.3? When I unplugged my monitor and 
> plugged a new one in and rebooted the freequencies were out of range for the 
> new monitor. It took me a long time to fix this. It seems to me though that 
> XFree86 could probe the monotor for these frequencies instead of them being 
> hard coded in the config file.

This is not yet in 4.3, maybe it is for a few drivers, but not in
general. There is discution and plans on how to implement this in a
future release, check the threads about DDC and EDID on both this list
and the -devel one. Please note that there is also discution in the
linux-fbdev list about this exact same thing.

Friendly,

Sven Luther