Re: [TCLUG:18801] Weird slow X4.0 Startup

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> > Interesting..  It looks like XF4.0 is trying to use the card to
> > communicate with the monitor and get configuration information from it.
> > The communication times out, so XF4.0 reports a greyscale display..  I
> > imagine your monitor is not greyscale, though ;-)  You probably want to
> > look for a way to disable the Vesa DDC detection, and then set up the
> > monitor sync rates, etc, the old-fashioned way..
> 
> AFAIK though a lot of drivers support reading DDC, none of the info is
> actually used for anything as of yet. So it won't affect setting
> modlines and such. Though I dunno how much I trust XFree 4.0's docs
> anymore. They say Rago Pro's acceleration is unsupported, but mine
> clearly is. ;)
> 
> On a tangent, whats up with DPMS anyway?

Dynamic power management system or something like that.  It's the method
used for powering down your monitor.  

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