Matthias Hopf wrote:
RandR isn't exactly verbose in specifying, what an output actually is. So far, two interpretations have been used, with one limitation or another.
What other connector types apart from VGA and DVI are there? I have seen LVDS/PANEL here, but I can't tell about HDMI, TV-Out, DisplayPort, all of which have been absent from this discussion so far. Can we make a comprehensivelist of connector and signal types before trying to come to a conclusion based on the very limited subset of VGA and DVI ports? radeon names: VGA-0 (on my notebook) DVI-0 LVDS radeonhd names: VGA_1 (on my notebook) DVI-D_1 PANEL DVI-I_1/analog (example) DVI-I_1/digital This usage of "-" and "_" looks ugly, from a non-programmer POV. Counting from zero instead of one... unnatural for non-programmers. Why do these names need numbers in them when there is only one of each sort? "LVDS" might be technically correct, but is probably known to much less people than VGA and DVI. "PANEL" is probably better-known, but there could be and even better word? -- Hans Ulrich Niedermann