On Oct 16, 08 00:21:31 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
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.
The only connector affected is DVI. All other come only in one flavor (not DVI-D and DVI-A) and can only connect to one display at a time.
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?
I'm doing that with the RandR 1.3 properties. The radeonhd manpage has a subset of that described, though it's outdated ATM.
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.
If that's common understanding, it could be changed to dash always. The only thing that might be awkward about it is that it is a change.
Why do these names need numbers in them when there is only one of each sort?
I thought I had some logic in place that doesn't add numbers if there is only one. Guess I didn't do it right :-] Sounds like we will have a change anyway. Also, I think we have a consensus, that DVI-I and DVI-D don't need to be specifically named that way (DVI should be enough). I still would keep DVI-A, due to the awkwardness of this connector. So we would get DVI-A(-1) instead of DVI-A_1 before DVI(-1) instead of DVI-D_1 before DVI(-1)/digital instead of DVI-I_1/digital before DVI(-1)/analog instead of DVI-I_1/analog before I think we also agree on the need of a specific HDMI connector.
"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?
The laptop monitor is called a panel, I don't know a different word for
that...
Matthias
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