[TriLUG] ddcprobe on dual headded systems

Wing D Lizard wingedlizard at nc.rr.com
Thu Aug 19 09:41:38 EDT 2004


http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107441

I'm not sure that is a matrox problem.  I'm trying to figure
out if it is even supposed to work.

This guy has a different problem -- ddcprobe doesn't even report
the first monitor, let alone both. ( looks like you are getting
at least one).

brett

William Sutton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Wing D Lizard wrote:
> 
> Just for giggles i searched the Matrox Linux support forum and found 
> nothing relating to either the bug # you mentioned or to ddcprobe.  
> Perhaps they aren't aware of it?
> 
> William
> 
> 
>>Thanks,  it looks like only the first monitor is detected, at least
>>with the Matrox 450 card.  This happens to be the same card that is
>>mentioned in the Redhat bug database ( bug # 107441).
>>
>>Anybody have any different hardware?
>>
>>brett bolen
>>
>>William Sutton wrote:
>>
>>>Just for you, data from my 2 ViewSonic E90fb + Matrox G450 + Red Hat 9 
>>>system:
>>>
>>>kenobi:~# ddcprobe
>>> 
>>>Videocard DDC probe results
>>>Description:  Matrox G450
>>>Memory (MB):  32
>>> 
>>>Monitor DDC probe results
>>>ID: VSC3507
>>>Name: E90fb
>>>Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 30-86
>>>Vertical Sync (HZ)  : 50-150
>>>Width (mm): 360
>>>Height(mm): 270
>>>
>>>William
>>>
>>>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Wing D Lizard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Does anybody know of this works?  I would like to know if I can '
>>>>query the monitor for ddc info using ddcprobe or ddcmon.
>>>>
>>>>There is a redhat problem report that says it doens't work with
>>>>a matrox board.
>>>>
>>>>If anybody has a dual headded linux system ( ddcprobe is kudzu
>>>>so it might need to be redhat), can you run ddcprobe and
>>>>send me the results?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> 




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