From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:31:59 +0200 Message-ID: <44B0CD0F.4080009@swipnet.se> References: <87slldpd8s.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <44AFB1E1.20906@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152437555 18673 80.91.229.2 (9 Jul 2006 09:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 09:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ralf Angeli , Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 09 11:32:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzVeO-0001xi-2q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:32:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzVeN-0006lZ-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzVeA-0006jk-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FzVe9-0006iB-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:32:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzVe9-0006i0-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.183] (helo=av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FzVev-0007n9-9U; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 05:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 861A7382F6; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:32:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av11-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7676A37F7B; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:32:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain (81-235-205-204-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.204]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368F937E42; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:32:08 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Macintosh/20060516) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56844 Archived-At: Jason Rumney skrev: > Lennart Borgman writes: > >> Is there any reason to believe the result should be correct? As I >> pointed out in a previous message the information does not seem to be >> available to the display driver. > > Built in LCDs in notebooks and LCD panels connected via digital > connectors are able to report details about the monitor back to the > video drivers/OS, though I am not sure whether manufacturers always > report accurate information, or whether Windows uses the information. > > Monitors connected via analog connectors are not able to report this > information, and Windows seems to always guess 320 as the width, and > the height is reported as consistent with the width:height ratio > assuming square pixels. Monitors with analog connectors can report EDID, but I don't know if width/height is in EDID. My analog connected monitor reports incorrect EDID all the time (i.e. wrong hsync freq). Jan D.