Hans Ulrich Niedermann writes:
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.
Most of them are uncritical as the connectors only support a single output. TV-Out does support mulitple output formats Composite/S-Video and sometimes also Component. The difference here is that these are just different signal formats of the same output. Presently we don't support these, and from the physical device point of view it's a single output. On hot plug we will run into similar issues as I described before.
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.
We could do [n] instead.
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?
There can be more than one. On DCE3.2 there could be 6 (theoretically).
"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?
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