From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 22 1:30: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CAE14D0E for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA72425; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:31:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:31:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone know how to dim and SGI flat panel? In-Reply-To: <199907220727.AAA79662@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :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. XFree86 has an i2c driver in it for talking to monitors so it sounds as if it should see it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message