Re: [MiNT] Video modelines

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:47:08 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
>
> On ma., 2015-02-09 at 12:44 +0000, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote:
> > The monitor on my Milan is broken so I will be buying another which may need some tweaks to
> > the modelines config for the video driver.
> >
> > This can be painful and require a lot of rebooting so I wondered if there was any tool that would
> > allow tweaks to the parameters to be tested rather like windows can test video settings.
>
> It should be possible to fetch the settings from the monitor itself
> using EDID. FireTOS does this on the FireBee and on CT60 with CTPCI.
>

Ideally the video driver would do EDID but I don't know if it does.

I think Falkemedia produced the Rage driver but was it ever released
from captivity ?

I borrowed a similar 19" vdu and that has worked without changes
which is good.

Regards,

Peter