From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 09:20:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5521A1065674; Thu, 28 May 2009 09:20:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7288FC15; Thu, 28 May 2009 09:20:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id n4S9KnaD028432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 28 May 2009 02:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id n4S9KnT5028431; Thu, 28 May 2009 02:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA02166; Thu, 28 May 09 02:15:11 PDT Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 02:14:23 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: rnoland@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <4a1e55ef.XCmDqiqV9EoVzpCw%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4a164879.9A1SKOjgHUb7X9q6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243015185.63754.104.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1724c4.OuQCIyZ462E1cHYx%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243089327.63754.1345.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1a288f.Z0ZX9ngtqKNukKbL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243259500.1787.986.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1b09b3.ewnqp2rizVfsYpk5%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243293431.1704.387.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1baf8e.Lz5OEp/BR3fkQ+QO%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20090526051955.2c73ba62@sorrow.ashke.com> <4a1d0812.wF4v52gYoURjHyHb%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243432390.2926.2253.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1243432390.2926.2253.camel@balrog.2hip.net> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: re-probing DDC/EDID X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:20:50 -0000 Robert Noland wrote: > So Adam just pointed out that you are still running 6.9... Thanks for checking into it. I'm certainly not surprised that newer versions provide new capabilities :) but a bit disappointed to find that this version can't re-probe the monitor -- at least not easily. (I did some grepping around in the code, and decided fairly quickly that there's good reason for non-gurus to stay out of it. I think I'll stick with command-line utilities and the kernel, which I have some hope of understanding.) > You really should update your installed ports to something more > recent. I was assuming that you were running relatively current > ports. This box is pretty well frozen, esp. WRT X, unless something comes along that breaks it very badly and makes an update unavoidable. As long as it ain't broke ... Instead, at some point I will get around to installing something much newer -- it would probably be 7.2 if I had time to pursue it in the near term -- on a different box, and once it is working well it may end up taking over this one's function.