On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:39:45 +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: > On 8/26/06, Peter TB Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Saturday 26 August 2006 01:10, Jon Smirl wrote: >> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:49:01 +0000, mykrowatt wrote: >> > > I didn't see this message earlier. >> > > Tim and I have been discussing support for fixed-frequency >> > > displays off-line, trying to whittle down the on-chip logic to >> > > the absolute >> > >> > Where are fixed frequency displays being used? I haven't seen one >> > since around 1996 or so and that was on a Sun system. >> >> I'm as bemused as you about the issue. I've seen *one* fixed frequency >> monitor, and that was sitting on a shelf at Snell & Wilcox >> (http://www.snellwilcox.com/). Admittedly it was plugged into a >> real-time HDTV compositing system with 64 GB of RAM at the time... can >> you even buy them any more? >> >> > LCD panels are essentially fixed frequency monitors. They understand ddc2 > nowadays though.
Every LCD I have ever seen supported some form of DDC. Every CRT monitor I have seen in the last five years supports DDC. There may still be a few fixed frequency, non-DDC monitors around but they are very uncommon. Laptop displays don't count. When you soldered the LCD onto the motherboard that was your hint to program the video ROM. Embedded systems don't count either, if you are smart enough to embed this card in a system you know how to blow a PROM too. This seems like a lot of work for a non-existent problem. I do have a monochrome display from the original IBM sitting in the corner of my office. I bet it is fixed frequency but I haven't turned it on for ten years. > > there is nothing wrong with fixed frequency monitors its just a problem of > telling the graphics adapter what the default mode is. > > i have a bias for hardware that can figure things out by themselves. Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
