Why the Monitor Database Deletions?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Jason Knight wrote:

>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:24:04 -0600
>From: Jason Knight <tuxpenguin at austin.rr.com>
>To: Fedora Test List <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
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>Subject: Why the Monitor Database Deletions? 
>
>I noticed that in both Fedora Core 2 and Core 1 x86_64 there are 
>monitors missing in the listing. Example: in FC1 i386 there is a NEC 
>Multisync FP912SB whereas this entry is absent in the other two cores. I 
>only noticed this as this is my specific monitor. Was this upstream or what?

Red Hat is the upstream.  We maintain MonitorsDB ourselves.  If 
there was something removed from the database between two OS 
releases it was either intentional and probably has a bugzilla 
entry, or it was accidental.  The files are updated via manual 
human process of cut and pasting, so anything is possible.

If you find any monitors missing, please file a bug report 
against the hwdata package, and if possible, attach the Windows 
.INF file for the monitor (or monitors) to the report as a file 
attachment, and we can extract the data easily and add it to the 
database that way.

If you know a specific hwdata package release that does have the 
data, you can just indicate that also, and we can diff between 
two releases of the package to see when it was removed.

Hope this helps.


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