Re: Progress Report - Pascal Schoenhardt - XRandR Display Configuration

["Pascal Schoenhardt" <stoanhart gmail com>]

> <snip>
> > Another case problem, which was brought up during Keith Packards demo of
> > RandR1.2 and Akademy, was that the projector mounted on the ceiling went
> > through some sort of switching panel before it connected to his laptop. This
> > panel did not pass on the EDID information. But I suppose in that case, we
> > couldn't determine the make/model of the display anyways, so having a
> > database built up from inf files would be quite useless...
>
> Why would it be useless? Granted, it wouldn't make it possible to do
> auto-configuration for the monitor, but being able to select the monitor type
> manually is -- at least IMO -- a big win over having to enter the refresh
> rates (or even *shudder* modelines) by hand.

Yeah, I suppose that is an advantage. Should be a lot of fun
downloading every single windows monitor driver and building up a
database... *shudder*