F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

[Adam Jackson]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:00 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> EDID & DDC are mere conveniences unnecessary to the function of the device. I
> really couldn't care less whether EDID/DDC exists, much less works. What
> matters (works just fine) from a display, which may have been manufactured
> before the invention of DDC or EDID, is its output qualities.

DDC1 was spec'd in 1994.  Version 3.0 of the DDC standard, which
included the I²C-based DDC2 protocol that most drivers implement, was
released in 1997; I'm reasonably sure it was also documented in Version
2 of that standard, which appears to have been 1995 or so according to
light googling for press releases.  (DDC1 was a remarkable botch that
involved overclocking the vertical sync pulse and using that to transfer
data.  Eeeeek.)

The oldest (instance of the minimal) CPU architecture we support is the
Pentium Pro, which was also 1995.  I'm touched by your concern for such
antiquarian hardware, but I'm quite comfortable saying it's not a design
goal to work on hardware that's now old enough to get a driver's
license.

- ajax
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