Bug 151876

Soeren -- did you add these when you synced up the list in rhpl?

I'm not seeing any listing for these monitors in the current list (after an
update in rawhide today).

I don't mean to harp, but given how common these screen sizes are on Dell
laptops these days (and that Dell is a very popular brand) it would be great to
have this addressed.

While the screens do work, the way the current setting are cause all sorts of
screen artifacts that make things look (and act) very broken.

Also, while this is being addressed, could I suggest that the display names get
changed to:

Dell Laptop Display Panel <width x height>

This would result in all the Laptop Diplay options appearing in the same chunk
of the listing, instead of being intermingled with other Dell monitors with
similar model numbers to the screen sizes.

In Rawhide you should be able to select those resolutions from under "Generic
LCD Display".

Updating the Dell monitors would have to be done in hwdata, so reassigning there.

Would need some sort of INF for the Dell monitors before we could add specific
entries.

Just a heads up.  I'm trying to find the INF file for this, but not having a lot
of luck.  I've not got Windows installed on the machine and the disks they
provide are all exe files that I imagine are just wrapped zip files, but I'm
unable to open them regardless.

I'm going to post a request for the file on the fedora-test list and see if
someone can come up with the goods.

Created attachment 114620 [details]
Results from inf2mondb.py for Dell monitors not in MonitorsDB

I downloaded all of the files in http://ftp.us.dell.com/monitors/, except for
those that looked like language variations, expanded them, ran the .inf files
through inf2mondb.py, and removed the lines that are already in MonitorsDB
(hwdata-0.145-1).  The result was these 29 lines.  As noted on
fedora-test-list, I don't have any of these monitors.  (I'm just trying to
teach myself Python.)

Created attachment 114621 [details]
MonitorsDB entries derived from Windows XP monitor*.inf files

And while we're at it, here are some additional monitors that Windows XP knows
about.	Judging by the EDIDs (inf2mondb.py's name for them), none of these are
in MonitorsDB, either.

Look out for EDID HWP22C8; there are 2 entries and the hsync and vsync numbers
are slightly different.  Probably best to leave it out of MonitorsDB
completely.

Also look out for lines beginning with "(Standard monitor types)".  These look
like generic entries.

The entries aren't in any particular order.  They're just the way they came
out of the 8 monitor*.inf files.

All the Dell monitors are in the MonitorsDB now that were list in your comment
#7. The ones from comment #8 are partially already in the DB, so i need to
filter out whats duplicate and whats new.

Also, the problem is that e.g. Sony monitores are identified as SONY Corporation
now etc, so a big manual cleanup of those additional monitors would be needed
anyway.

I've saved the file in my hwdata CVS and see to include them over time.

As the original request has been done i'm closing this bug as fixed in rawhide.

Read ya, Phil