Re: [ddccontrol-users] New monitors and other questions

[Nicolas B. <ni...@bo...>]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 23:58 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:47 am, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> > Your monitors are very similar to my Mitsubishi 2060u. Could you try to
> > put the attached files in ddccontrol-db/db/monitor (and run "make
> > install" again of course)? Then please send me the outputs of the same
> > two commands (so I can see if there is missing controls, and ask
> > Mitsubishi for their meanings).
> 
> The MEL4513	(Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 92) returns 'Error while getting value: 
> Vertical Linearity', 'Vertucal Linearity Balance', 'Top Corner Distortion 
> Balance' and 'Bottom Corner Distortion Balance' when running gddccontrol.
> $ LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d > out.txt 2>&1

Ok. Please replace MEL44B0.xml with the one attached, it should make
these error messages disappear.

> The only problem with the MEL4513 (Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070sb) seems to be 
> the OSD language setting.  I have it set on English but gddccontrol shows it 
> as German.
> $ LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-2 -c -d > out2.txt 2>&1

Ok that's a minor problem.

Thanks for both outputs, I'll send them to NEC/Mitsubishi, and recontact
you when I have better monitor xml files, with missing controls.

> > > I've compile this under Debian Stable (with some unstable programs
> > > installed) and ran into the "ddccontrol-0.2 compile error" reported
> > > earlier on this mail-list.  My fix was to force Xinerama in the configure
> > > script because  it wasn't detected and I need it.  Attached is the
> > > relevant part of config.log which may show why it wasn't detected.
> >
> > Strange problem... Could you tell me what you did exactly to force
> > Xinerama to be enabled?
> >
> 
> I added a 'ac_cv_lib_Xinerama_XineramaQueryExtension=yes' to line 8531 in the 
> configure script.  This skips the test and sets Xinerama as present.  The 
> conftest.c program will compile by adding the '-lXext' option to the gcc 
> command.

Ok... Anyway I'll stop using Xinerama in the next releases (GTK provides
everything needed), so I won't take time to fix this problem.

> The following script adjusts my monitors' brightness depending on daytime or 
> nighttime.  Thank you because I use to do this manually.
> 
> HOUR=$(date +%H)
> echo HOUR=$HOUR
> 
> READ=$(ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-1 -r 0x12)
> READ=${READ##*+/}
> READ=${READ%%/*}
> echo READ=$READ
> 
> if (($HOUR > 6)) && (($HOUR < 17)); then
>     if (($READ != 230)); then
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-2 -r 0x12 -w 230 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-1 -r 0x12 -w 230 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-2 -r 0x10 -w 204 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-1 -r 0x10 -w 204 -s
>     fi
> else
>     if (($READ != 128)); then
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-2 -r 0x12 -w 127 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-1 -r 0x12 -w 128 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-2 -r 0x10 -w 102 -s
>         ddccontrol pci:01:00.0-1 -r 0x10 -w 102 -s
>     fi
> fi

Nice!

Best regards,

Nicolas