https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402734 User federico@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402734#c19 --- Comment #19 from Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> 2008-12-01 14:21:16 MST --- (In reply to comment #18 from Matthias Hopf)
FWIW, RandR 1.3 will have properties that will tell you exactly the type of the outputs. I'll go into details as soon as it's actually implemented (I'm done with the spec, but implementation need some time, and all drivers have to adopt). When going for the name, please also check for "PANEL", because that's what we use for RadeonHD.
Could RadeonHD use "LVDS" just like the other drivers? If the logic to check 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. [Otherwise someone will write another driver for another chipset and call the built-in display "foobar" - then the software will fail :) ]
Patching the Xserver is IMHO a no-go, because the order is up to the driver.
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. -- 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.