On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:32:59 +0300, "Oguz Yarimtepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> I'd be willing to bet that S-video outputs do NOT have feed-back to > the video driver as they only carry chroma and luminance signals. And > what is DMI? a low-resolution HDMI or a typo for DVI? > It is a DVI output. sorry for the typo. > For those connectors that do carry feedback, it is no doubt > something buried deep in the guts of the OS and video card drivers. > > Also, consider that, for example, my monitor has four inputs: VGA, > DVI, S-Video, and I believe plain old composite. I can have four devices > (two computers, a dvd-player, and a VCR, say) and switch between them. > What would your program do if the detected cable is not the one that is > displayed at the time? > -- It is a display switcher working in a simple way. I couldn't manage to clone my dvi output, i had to switch of lvds and set the output to dvi. When the cable is unplugged i planned to switch the lvds output on. -- Oğuz Yarımtepe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list