question about new monitor...

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 30 19:43:55 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 
> > > 		I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20" i can get widescreen
> > > 		with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit.  IFF
> > > 		xorg know what kind of beast this is:-)
> > 
> > Xorg can "talk" to modern monitors using the ddc2 protocol (but only
> > with a DVI connection, AFAICT).
> 
> No, ddc/ddc2b works just fine over a standard analog VGA-connector as well
> (assuming both monitor and graphics card supports it, which just about all
> devices you can buy today does.)

I forgot to check on Wikipedia. :) For those who are interested, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Data_Channel for more in-depth info.

Roland
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