samsung syncmaster - monitor_database

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

>will_be_recognized/are_supported
>the samsung syncmaster 15x, 17x, 19x
>in severn1 or higher ?
>
>
>some monitors should be replaced in the near future  @work
>@home  i can not find a similar entry in the monitor-list from 
>redhat-config-xfree86
>
>
>
>overview:
>http://monitor.samsung.de/index_tft_syncmaster.asp
>
>
>152T TFT
>http://monitor.samsung.de/detail_tft_syncmaster.asp?artid=318
>
>172T TFT
>http://monitor.samsung.de/detail_tft_syncmaster.asp?artid=391
>
>192T MM TFT
>http://monitor.samsung.de/detail_tft_syncmaster.asp?artid=810
>
>
>
>in which file can i find the monitor_database?
>
>??  /usr/share/redhat-config-xfree86/xconf.py
>import rhpl.monitor  ??

Any CRT or DFP which supports DDC probing, will be autodetected 
automatically as long as the video driver supplied for your video 
card supports DDC probing on that type of display.  If the 
display does not support DDC, or if the driver does not support 
DDC on that type of display, then autodetection will not work and 
the monitor needs to be selected from a list produced by the 
monitor database.

If anyone has a monitor which does not autodetect on a particular 
video card, or through a KVM switch or some other peculiarity, 
they can get their monitor added to our MonitorDB by going to 
the manufacturer's website and downloading the vendor's Microsoft 
Windows "driver" file, or .INF file for their monitor.  Once 
someone has submitted the .INF file, we can automate extracting 
the required information and adding it to our database.

Once it's added to the database, manual monitor selection is 
possible in the config tools.  Note that the DDC probe 
autodetection mechanism does not require the monitor to be listed 
in the database.  The database is only needed for displays that 
are not autodetected for any reason.

Hope this helps.
TTYL

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat