From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andy@warmcat.com (Andy Green) Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:18:36 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] Black box flight recorder for Linux Message-Id: <4486A7FC.2090904@warmcat.com> List-Id: References: <44379AB8.6050808@superbug.co.uk> <443A4927.5040801@warmcat.com> <20060607100349.a990e054.khali@linux-fr.org> In-Reply-To: <20060607100349.a990e054.khali@linux-fr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jean Delvare Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Jean Delvare wrote: Hi Folks - Impressed with Krzysztof doing the work! >> The first part is the "console" driver (obvious parts removed). It works >> with both my Asus A7V333 (VIA KT333, VIA SMBUS driver) and with VGA DDC >> interface on a Cirrus Logic GD 5446 VGA chip (simplified source attached >> as well). Using respectively 2464 and 24512 set to ID 0x57. > > How do you intend to connect your device to the DDC channel if there's > already a monitor connected to the VGA or DVI port? For both VGA and DVI I think the optimal answer is to build a small back-back breakout adapter. The parts seem to be quite reasonably priced and reasonably available, eg from Farnell (www.farnell.co.uk): VGA: Plug partcode 1071807 GBP 1.76 Socket partcode 1071811 GBP 2.10 DVI: Plug partcode 9965190 GBP 1.38 Socket partcode 1012227 GBP 2.01 If the original cabling looks like this: