From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 6:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles546.castles.com [208.214.165.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64306151F1 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 06:40:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01414; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907220728.AAA01414@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone know how to dim and SGI flat panel? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:27:12 PDT." <199907220727.AAA79662@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:28:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > :I'd bet it's done using DPMS. See if the XFree86 4.x code can tell you > :anything about the monitor's capabilities. > > It's up? Very cool, they actually put the prerelease up 2 days ago! > 47MB download, yummy! DGA is going to be sooooo cool. > > Unfortunately it looks like the DPMS stuff is still a bit primitive. > Shoot. I'll check it out, though. The 3.3.3 I128 driver (that's > the number 9 card) does not appear to support DPMS at all. > > SGI's site has a whitepaper on the flatpanel but it's a bit spare on > control protocols. They do say something about an I2C bus but I dunno > whether that is what DPMS uses or not. That is how I believe that DMPS communications are transported to the display. Unfortunately, the DPMS specification is a VESA-proprietary document so you will have to either join the XFree86 project or sponsor FreeBSD as a VESA member (that would be nice 8). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message