Re: [ddccontrol-devel] Nvidia proprietary driver support for I2C /bus interface?

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

Thunderbird crashed just after I sent the message, so I think it was not
delivered successfully...

Here is my previous message:

Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> William Hollingworth wrote:
>   
>> Hi Nicolas
>>
>> I was just forwarded this link to some updated documentation from Nvidia.
>>
>> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-8762/README/appendix-z.html
>>
>>  From what I understand from this, it seems to mean they are now 
>> supporting the "/dev" interface method for DDC/CI. What do you think?
>>
>> If this is true, then it would no longer be necessary to use the PCI 
>> interface method if you didn't want to - right?
>>
>> Has anyone actually tried their latest drivers to see if if this 
>> works? I haven't had chance yet.
>>   
>>     
> I finally found the time to try this, and it works fine. I'll update the
> documentation.
>
> I wish every binary drivers supported this interface (for example, ATI
> doesn't), so we could drop direct pci interface method (which is a nice
> workaround, but has nothing to do in a userspace program).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas
>
>