RandR 1.2 for Xorg 7.2?

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/21/06, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:39 +0200, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > Nice work Keith.  Do you have the sample driver implementation
> > available anywhere?  Once I get back into the country and have some
> > time to go over it, I can tackle the convertion of other dualhead
> > capable drivers.  Does anyone see any reason to keep the mergedfb
> > implementations around once a driver is converted to the new xrandr?
> > what about the old screen based dualhead?
>
> As I posted, I've got a version of the Intel driver working with this
> new code. I've found that attempting to write code without a test case
> is somewhat error prone.
>
>         git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/xf86-video-intel randr-1.2

Is this available from the gitweb interface or just git?  I was hoping
to review it on the web since I don't have access to a machine with
git at the moment.

Alex

>
> And, yes, the goal is to unify the various mergefb implementations
> around the RandR framework along with new xf86 DDX code which we'll want
> to look at for 7.3. RandR gives us new vocabulary to talk about mergefb,
> but it doesn't solve the start-up configuration issues. We may decide
> that startup "doesn't matter" and that the user is free to set up any
> configuration they like after login time, but I suspect many people will
> want X to come up with the desired configuration immediately.
>
> The old multi-driver Xinerama code remains useful as there's no other
> way of creating really large desktops; this RandR implementation does
> not perform any of that functionality. What I want to do is take
> advantage of the existing Xinerama screen-merging code and somehow mash
> it together with the RandR-based mergefb code so we can have multi-card
> mergefb environments.
>
> --
> keith.packard at intel.com
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