Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (333 mails)

["Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Matthias Hopf <mhopf@xxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Most drivers interpret outputs to be connectors (a), so they have
> outputs named like
>
>   VGA-1
>   DVI-1
>
> radeonhd instead uses signal routes as outputs (b), so the same set as
> above is specified as 3 outputs, named
>
>   VGA-1
>   DVI-I_1/analog
>   DVI-I_1/digital

I personally prefer (a) since it seems more logical to me and easier
for users to understand.  The physical connectors are what the user
sees.  A lot of people don't really know that DVI-I is really a
combination of analog and digital, so it's easy for confusion to arise
when you see more outputs listed than connectors on your card.

Alex
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