2008/10/15 Matthias Hopf
So please post your conclusion, especially if you can back it up with experience or configurations that would work well in one of the scenarios, but not in the other.
I don't really see point of using "analog" and "digital" suffixes. OK, there is:
you can (theoretically) drive both the analog and digital lines on a DVI port, even with different signals but I belive this is strictly theoretical situation only. I've never seen such a solution in practice, did anyone? If this may be needed in future for development, maybe make this splitting as an option?
Moreover I also don't see point of using -I and -D suffixes for DVI. OK, I know there is some difference, but really... don't think end user cares about it. If someone needs to know what kind of output in on GPU - instruction is for that. Plus maybe we can also put info to Xorg.0.log. Last confusing thing in my opinion is using DVI-D for HDMI output. Maybe it has the same pins as DVI, maybe every driver calls it DVI... but it's just confusing. In every GPU/notebook documentation with HDMI otuput you will see "HDMI" not "DVI". So that makes little mess. I think it would be nice to create HDMI_n names. Thanks for asking us :) That's great you listen opinions from simple end-users :) And everybody: comment my ideas as well, please :) -- Rafał Miłecki