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Date:      Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:52 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: question about new monitor...
Message-ID:  <20080730194352.GA92985@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080730182645.GA52357@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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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:
> > >=20
> > > 		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:-)
> >=20
> > Xorg can "talk" to modern monitors using the ddc2 protocol (but only
> > with a DVI connection, AFAICT).
>=20
> 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 in=
fo.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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