thanks to both of you for your answers...they were a great help to me and i think now i can proceed on buying the monitor without any more hesitations. If i have any further problems/questions after i have bought the monitor i will post back.is there any other software other than ddccontrol which would help
me control the monitor or is ddccontrol all i need?? thanks... On 16/08/07, Aleksey V. Kunitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 16 August 2007, Danis Petkakis wrote: > > hi there...i'm thinking of buying the tft monitor mentioned in the > subject > > of this topic and i would like to know how it comprehends with > gentoo...i'm > > a little confused because the monitor doesn't have any switches to > control > > it rather Samsung gives a software called magictune to do all of the > > controlling...so my question is will i be able to work with this monitor > in > > my gentoo and if so how will i be able to control the > brightness/contrast > > and the other feautures?? thanks for any response... > > Hi, > > I have two Samsung 971p monitors plugged via two DVI ports in xinerama > mode. > They work best for me. If you want to tune them under linux you can use > ddccontrol [1], which is also in portage (note: 971p seem to be only in > the > latest ddc database, so if you'll not find this model there - try to > unmask > packages related to the ddccontrol) > > [1] http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/ > > good luck > > -- > best regards, > Aleksey V. Kunitskiy > my public GPG/PGP key: http://www.alexey-kv.org.ua/pubkey.asc > >
