Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (333 mails)

[Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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