Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (333 mails)

[Mark Struberg <struberg@xxxxxxxx>]

+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,
strub

--- Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am Do, 16.10.2008:

> Von: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [radeonhd] RandR connector names [Poll/Discussion]
> An: radeonhd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Datum: Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2008, 0:21
> 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



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