https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402734 User mhopf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402734#c20 --- Comment #20 from Matthias Hopf <mhopf@novell.com> 2008-12-03 09:19:23 MST --- (In reply to comment #19 from Federico Mena Quintero)
Could RadeonHD use "LVDS" just like the other drivers? If the logic to check
No. The term LVDS is a technical term and people cannot be forced to use them, IMHO it has been a bad decision by the radeon developers in the first place. Also, it's bad to use a de-facto standard for something that is (apparently) not standardized. That's exactly what the properties should be for. We recently had a poll for changing output names (for different issues). Result was that if at all they should be changed only slightly. Everybody agreed that PANEL is superior to LVDS.
the output names indeed has to live in the clients, I'd rather have a standard naming scheme rather than having to adjust to differences in drivers.
There is already none. And you're not guaranteed that there will ever be one.
[Otherwise someone will write another driver for another chipset and call the built-in display "foobar" - then the software will fail :) ]
Exactly. Never EVER use names for meta-information. Period. That's one of the lessons that should have been learned a long time ago. That said, using the name as decision maker is probably the best you can do for SLE 11 ATM :-( Depends on the release schedule whether we would have Xserver 1.6 (which would - hopefully - include standard property support), but ATM I doubt that.
Actually, what if we let the driver return whatever it wants, but then have the hardware-independent part reorder the list of outputs? Each output/CRTC/etc. would still keep its ID, so the XRR* functions would still work as expected.
In that case you're forcing a heuristics-based order upon the order the driver issued, and while the driver might have had a clue about the order, the Xserver will never have. E.g. in the radeonhd driver you can change the order of the outputs if the BIOS isn't telling you the correct order, that would no longer work if the Xserver reorders everything. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.