Anaconda and monitor handling

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:09 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 06:53 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Additionally, DDC probing via ddcprobe only works if the video
> >>BIOS implements it correctly and handles all of the connected
> >>displays in a sane fashion, which in practice is rarely true.
> > 
> > 
> > Well, PPC gives EDID data through OF, but this has its problems too --
> > primarily that you only get a resolution and a number of colors, not a
> > real modeline.
> 
> For the short term, it would be nice if someone were to
> reimplement ddc-probe to use x86emu or some other emulator
> so that VBE could be used uniformly on all architectures
> at least.  That would give reasonable consistency between
> architectures even if it wasn't as complete as what the
> X server has built in.

well.... if X has this info.. would there be a way for anaconda to get
to this knowledge (when available only of course) so that at least post
install it can do something reasonable?

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