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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!news From: "PC29" <mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Philips 107A monitor: How to configure under XFree86? Date: 22 May 1997 12:06:38 GMT Organization: Philips Dictation Systems Lines: 46 Distribution: world Message-ID: <01bc66a7$b3f54ae0$1d3c9282@PC29> Reply-To: mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pc29.at.ds.philips.com Keywords: Philips 107A monitor configurations EDID DDC X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41419 comp.windows.x:97267 comp.windows.x.i386unix:23320 Dear readers, Recently I bought a Philips 107A (Brilliance) monitor to go with my XFree86 3.2 installation running on FreeBSD-2.2. I soon had to find out that this monitor's settings can be altered only from the host computer - which must be running either Windows 95 or MacOS. The monitor has no front panel configuration buttons, everything is set using EDID/DDC. Since I have neither of the aforementioned OSs, I am currently pretty much stuck with the default settings of the monitor, which are less than adequate. I would therefore appreciate it very much if anyone could help me with my problem of correctly setting the monitor's adjustments. Philips themselves have been rather unwilling to help, even though I am an employee of this company. I am nearly convinced by now that the only way for me would be to get a copy of the EDID/DDC standards, and write an X Server extension for it. Unfortunately, the VESA consortium seems to have a hold on these documents, as I don't seem to be able to find any relevant information on the net. Enough said - thanks in advance for any help! Martin P.S. I know it's against netiquette, but could you please direct any replies to my mailing address as well - it is difficult for me to read news regularly. --- Martin Birgmeier Philips Speech Processing Computerstrasse 6 P.O. Box 274 Tel: +43 1 60101 4120 A-1101 Vienna Fax: +43 1 60101 4145 Austria e-mail: mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com