From: Steffen Seeger <seeger@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:59:39 +0200 (MEST)

Re: Changing the kernel makefile system...

> Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > > If we try to get a system which require people to recompile the kernel
> > > when they change their monitor into the kernel we're going to get
> > > laughed at and noone will ever listen to us again.
> > >
> > > Monitor parameters are not a thing to choose at compiletime!
> > > They should be set by passing parameters to the kernel at
> > > boottime, or by a user-level program with root-privs.
> > > And they should default to only allowing the mode the kernel
> > > booted in.
> > 
> >         Aahhhhh (kicks self).  echo "monitordata" >/proc/monitor, right?
> > Yeah, that makes more sense.  OK, the multisync drivers are history.
> 
> Yes, something like that.
> Btw. Noone responded to my question about in what way
> timelist and monosync drivers are not a subset of
> a multisync driver that supports more than one range
> of frequencies.

Timelist allows only some fixed h/v resolutions.
Monosync allows only some fixed v resolutions, but is flexible horizontally.
Multisync allows any h/v resolutions, as long as timing restrictions
are met. (resolutions may be different).

> //Marcus


			Steffen

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