memory size of a video card

[joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de]

Mike Faire wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 08:33 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 11:35 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
> 
>> Hi Aaaron,
>>
>> it seems to fail on my machine (having a lcd monitor):
>>
>> backes at eule [backes]: ddcprobe
>>
>> Monitor autoprobe results
>> Monitor autoprobe failed.
>>
>> Regards
> 
> When I execute ddcprobe as a user, I get those results.
> When ddcprobe is executed as root, 
> 
> [root at N7KZZ ~]# ddcprobe
> 
> Videocard DDC probe results
> Description:  ATI Technologies Inc. V350
> Memory (MB):  16
> 
> Monitor DDC probe results
> ID: DET4001
> Name: L19GBN
> Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 24-83
> Vertical Sync (HZ)  : 55-76
> Width (mm): 380
> Height(mm): 300
> 
> 
> Looks like a permissions problem for ddcprobe.

Right. Getting correct results as root too.

Regards

> 
> HTH
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 

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