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    SubjectRe: Re: New Idea? Capture video settings details in Win98/etc. forXFree86 config
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    Project Lothar which is being sponsored by mandrake linux (link to it from
    there web page) is doing detection of ISA PNP devices using a pnp id and a
    lookup table.

    I dont think they plan to do PCI devices, but i guess its a start, check it
    out.


    > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:16:12AM -0400, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
    >
    > > > Most of the hardware that windows 98 can find in your PC and SUPPORTED
    > > > in Linux can be found quite easily. Try the latest distributions
    > > > (Redhat Loxar, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, SuSE 6.2 etc)
    > > I pointed this out. Detecting the hardware all or most of the time
    isn't
    > > the problem although sometimes detecting ram and clock settings seems
    > > deficient.
    >
    > How does windows find these infos? Normally it doesn't even look for it. I
    > have yet to see a Windows fresh install that does _not_ come up in
    > 640x480x16.
    >
    > Is there someone working on "Monitor PnP" (DDC?) or something?, that would
    > probably be the way to go. Steal infos from Windows is not bad, but not
    > everybody has Windows.
    >
    > > > Also, Windows like to mess with IRQ's, DMA's and stuff that you'll no
    > > > neccsary agree to the same settings on Linux...
    > > The dot clocks, scan frequencies, and to a lesser extent the video mode
    > > are what's needed. These are the parameters that really need to be
    tuned
    > > manually often with XFree86 because you don't have the benefit of
    details
    > > of the particular card you have. These should be register settings in
    > > the video hardware which shouldn't involve any OS details except how to
    > > get access to them when they are set properly.
    >
    > Yes. What would be very nice would be a cddb-like hwdb for hardware
    tuning,
    > which could be duplicated on a distribution and used for installation.
    When
    > the user then changes his settings and inputs new ones, he is asked if he
    > wants to upload those new settings.
    >
    > Just for video, sound, monitor, printer settings. All those settings that
    > are hard, if not impossible, to auto detect, because you don't know what
    > the user wants.
    >
    > Nice idea. Anyone? :)
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > _ciao, Jens_______________________________ http://www.pinguin.conetix.de
    >
    > You can tune a file system, but you can't tuna fish
    > -- man tunefs
    >
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