New monitor Viewsonic VA702B in MonitorsDB

[Richard Boudreau]

Binary package hint: guidance-backends

The popular ViewSonic LCD Monitor VA702B is not automatically detected because it is not in the Gutsy /usr/share/apps/guidance/MonitorsDB database. The following line added to the file corrects the problem:

ViewSonic; ViewSonic VA702b; VSC231C; 30-82; 50-85; 1

The following is the release :
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

This is the package version :
 Name Version Description
=================-=========================-=======================================================
 guidance-backends 0.8.0svn20070928-0ubuntu7 collection of system administration tools for GNU/Linux

The following is the Windows .inf information file from the vendor :
************************************************************************************************************
;Monitor.Inf for Windows(R) 95/98/Me/2000/XP

;Copyright 2005, ViewSonic Corporation

[Version]

signature="$CHICAGO$"

Class=Monitor

ClassGuid={4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Provider=%ViewSonic%

DriverVer=03/16/2005, 1.6.0.15

[DestinationDirs]

DefaultDestDir= 11

VA702b.CopyFiles=23

[SourceDisksNames]

1=%DiskLabel%,,

[SourceDisksFiles]

VA702b.ICM=1

[Manufacturer]

%ViewSonic%=ViewSonic

[ControlFlags]

ExcludeFromSelect.nt=*

[ViewSonic]

%VA702b%=VA702b.Install,Monitor\VSC231C ;VA702b

[VA702b.Install] ;VA702b

DelReg=DEL_CURRENT_REG

AddReg=VA702b.AddReg,1280,DPMS

Copyfiles=VA702b.CopyFiles

[DEL_CURRENT_REG]

HKR,MODES

HKR,,MaxResolution

HKR,,DPMS

HKR,,ICMProfile

[1280]

HKR,,MaxResolution,,"1280,1024"

[DPMS]

HKR,,DPMS,,1

[VA702b.AddReg] ;VA702b

HKR,"MODES\1280,1024",Mode1,,"30-82,50-85,+,+"

HKR,,ICMProfile,0,"VA702b.ICM"

[VA702b.CopyFiles]

VA702b.ICM

[Strings]

ViewSonic="ViewSonic"

DiskLabel="VA702b ViewSonic Wizard"

VA702b="ViewSonic VA702b"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kde-guidance - 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu2~ppa3

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kde-guidance (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu2~ppa3) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add kubuntu_10_displayconfig_tryagain.patch so that if displayconfig
    thinks a proprietary driver is installed, but it can't find it, it
    will try to find a non-proprietary driver instead of crashing (LP: #198269)
  * Add kubuntu_11_wineconfg_amd64.patch so that wineconfig looks in the right
    dir for wine on AMD64 (LP: #151982) - Patch should be removed for the next
    svn snapshot or release as a fix has been committed upstream already
  * Add kubuntu_12_powermanager_survive_no_brightness.patch so that if the old
    brightness cannot be gotten from DBUS, powermanager won't crash
    (LP: #183656) and (LP: #198071)
  * Add kubuntu13_displayconfig_add_new_monitors.patch to support additional
    ViewSonic VA702 variants (LP: #192899)

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:41 -0500

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Fix is not actually released yet. Please test the updated kde-guidance in my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+archive

If I get confirmation the fix works, I'll include it in the next upload.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

This monitor has been added to the upstream Hardware database we pull from. I'll add a snapshot from that when I do the next upload to Kubuntu.

[Matt Domsch (matt-domsch)]

I added this monitor in the upstream hwdata git tree at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/hwdata.git/.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kde-guidance - 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu3

---------------
kde-guidance (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add Add kubuntu_09_mountconfig_no_extensions.patch to remove uneeded call
    to pykdeextensions in mountconfig so that pyqt3 no longer needs to be
    patched to provide -dev files in the regular package (LP: #197867)
  * Add kubuntu_10_displayconfig_tryagain.patch so that if displayconfig
    thinks a proprietary driver is installed, but it can't find it, it
    will try to find a non-proprietary driver instead of crashing (LP: #198269)
  * Add kubuntu_11_wineconfg_amd64.patch so that wineconfig looks in the right
    dir for wine on AMD64 (LP: #151982) - Patch should be removed for the next
    svn snapshot or release as a fix has been committed upstream already
  * Add kubuntu_12_powermanager_survive_no_brightness.patch so that if the old
    brightness cannot be gotten from DBUS, powermanager won't crash
    (LP: #183656) and (LP: #198071)
  * Add kununtu_13_displayconfig_add_new_monitors.patch to update MonitorsDB
    with a upstream snapshot of MonitorsDB from hwdata (LP: #192899)

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:53:42 -0400