[PATCH xf86-video-dummy 0/6] Cleanups and RandR 1.2 support

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Jan 29 15:07:57 PST 2015


Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> writes:

>  From a quick skim of your randrproto patch, it sounds like a client 
> should be able to call RRSetMonitor with an empty crtc list to construct 
> its own monitor rectangles.  That sounds like the right approach here.

Yeah, you can list 0-n CRTCs, precisely so we can create virtual monitor
areas mapped to VNC, WiDi or whatever else you like.

> Will -dummy need any additional code to handle that?  I would assume 
> that that would be handled entirely in the DIX RandR layer and -dummy 
> wouldn't need to be involved, so the current patch set should be pretty 
> much complete.

Shouldn't need anything in dummy at all. Once we fix gtk+, we may
actually be able to get rid of the fake CRTC stuff entirely, which would
be kinda nice.

-- 
-keith
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