RandR bugs

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 08:34 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:21 -0400, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:12 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > 
> > > Also, I'm not sure RRFunc is needed at all. It seems to me that
> > > xf86SwitchMode() is good enough to let the driver handle the necessary
> > > switch.
> > > 
> > > The only thing that is missing is a call that the driver can make to
> > > obtain the current rotation mode (i.e. randrp->rotation). Removing the
> > > need completely for RRFunc.
> > 
> > Isn't DriverFunc still useful in that it allows the driver to cancel a
> > rotation that it doesn't support?
> 
> If SwitchMode returned false, why isn't that good enough to cancel the
> operation too ?

Because the X server couldn't tell whether it failed because of the
rotation or because of the mode itself.


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