+1 for keeping the current schema (b)
I've a bunch of workstations and servers (SEL/RHEL and Solaris)+ 2 notebooks (Fedora9) at work+home , and every time I use a different driver or hardware I'll get slightly different looking connector names (DVI, DVI_0, DVI-0, DVI0, DVI-I_0, PANEL, ...)
So as Ulrich already mentioned: to me there currently IS NO standard naming schema, and from a users perspective there is no difference if you have to change an 'DVI-0' to a 'DVI-I_0' or write a more descriptive 'DVI-I_0/digital'
I'd probably vote (a) if there would be a real standard naming schema and one could simply change the driver name without having to change other scripts, but without it's imho really pointless.
LieGrue,
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--- Hans Ulrich Niedermann
RandR isn't exactly verbose in specifying, what an output actually is. So far, two interpretations have been used, with one
Von: Hans Ulrich Niedermann
Betreff: Re: [radeonhd] RandR connector names [Poll/Discussion] An: radeonhd@opensuse.org Datum: Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008, 0:21 Matthias Hopf wrote: 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
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