From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: , Subject: Re: [9fans] ddc In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:39:31 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 16106e2e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Sigh, shouldn't the -user community- be making this decision... I can say that there is a significant contingent of Hangar 18 users who disagree with the assertion that the current VGA support is good enough. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Russ Cox wrote: > > Is there any plan to integrate some kind > > of ddc communication between monitors > > and vga cards in some near future?. > > No. > > > If not, why?. > > Because there are no plans to go anywhere > near vga in the near future. I actually rewrote > vga a couple years ago. The new one is cleaner, > doesn't require anything in vgadb, makes it easy > to add switching back to text mode and other > video modes, and has DDC/EDID support (on > a card-by-card basis: each card lets you at the > DDC in a different way). But it only supports three > cards. Sad though it is, the current vga ``is neither > clean nor portable, but it has slowly come to terms > with its particular set of cranky devices.'' > Basically, pushing the new vga out the door would > be a big time sink with little actual benefit. > > Things work well enough that until there are more > pressing reasons, it's probably best to leave vga > alone. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, ravage@ssz.com we see them as we are. www.ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.org Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------