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Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows
From: |
Ralf Angeli |
Subject: |
Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:36:07 +0200 |
* Jason Rumney (2006-07-09) writes:
> You're right, DDC is supported for analog monitors also. So I wonder
> why 320mm was reported as the width for all 3 of my monitors. It is
> about right for the 15.1" and 14.1" widescreen, but the 19" should be
> closer to 400mm.
I guess we won't find out on a non-free system where we cannot look at
the code.
> In case anyone wants to investigate why the numbers are off (is
> Windows using what the monitor reports?), there's a program to read
> the data from the monitor independantly of the OS/video drivers here:
>
> http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/
>
> It fails on my laptop with the 15.1" display when run from Windows XP,
> however.
I didn't install read-edid, but xdpyinfo run on GNU/Linux reports
wrong values for my notebook: 474x356mm That's why I normally set the
correct value in xorg.conf with the DisplaySize directive.
--
Ralf
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, (continued)
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/07
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/07
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/07/07
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Ralf Angeli, 2006/07/07
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Jason Rumney, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, David Kastrup, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Jason Rumney, 2006/07/08
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows,
Ralf Angeli <=
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- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Ralf Angeli, 2006/07/09
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, David Kastrup, 2006/07/09
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/09
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Kim F. Storm, 2006/07/10
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, David Kastrup, 2006/07/10
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Jason Rumney, 2006/07/10
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, David Kastrup, 2006/07/10
- Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows, Jason Rumney, 2006/07/10
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