RandR version 1.2 revisited

[Adam Jackson]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:30, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:47 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > And, just to harp on EDID some more, we already get a moderately okay
> > gamma ramp (describing the monitor) from base EDID, and DI-EXT gives you
> > something like 48 stops to work with.  Exporting that from the server in
> > the new RANDR seems pretty natural, so it would seem that any future
> > gamma adjustment work would at least want to be new-randr aware.
>
> We've already got the XDCCC stuff that we could just move over to the
> Output object, extracting it from EDID and all. Does EDID have white
> point stuff too? We could do it up right that way.

It appears to.  I don't have the base EDID docs, just the implementors guide, 
which mutters something about requiring sRGB displays to encode exactly 
certain values.  The EDID code already in the server includes a function 
called "get_whitepoint_section" so I imagine that's what it does.

- ajax
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