Ati randr-1.2 branch and Xrandr output

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/21/07, Alberto Milone <albertomilone at alice.it> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 6/21/07, Alberto Milone <albertomilone at alice.it> wrote:
> >> Hi, I have installed ATI's Randr-1.2 branch from GIT and I have tried
> >> Xrandr.
> >>
> >> Here is the output I get on my old laptop:
> >>
> >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2708 x 1152
> >> VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right)
> >> LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
> >>    1024x768       60.0*+   60.0
> >>    800x600        60.3
> >>    640x480        59.9
> >>
> >>
> >> My laptop has a VGA port and a S-Video port (the latter is not detected
> >> by Xrandr). My card is detected as "ATI Tecnologies Inc Radeon IGP
> >> 330M/340M/350M".
> >>
> >> My question is why aren't TV and TMDS-1 displayed (as disconnected) by
> >> xrandr? That is to say why doesn't xrandr print something like this?
> >>
> >
> > TV out is not supported yet in the radeon driver.  As far as TMDS,
> > does your laptop actually have a DVI port?  If so, your bios connector
> > tables are wrong. If not, why would you want a connector that you
> > don't have to show up?
> >
> > Alex
> >
> My laptop doesn't have a DVI port.
>
> I would like Xrandr to print that both TV and TMDS-1 are disconnected
> even if they don't exist. This might seem illogical however it would
> help greatly the app I'm developing. The app I'm talking about is URandR:
> https://launchpad.net/urandr
>
> URandR parses the output of XRandR so as to get all the details of the
> displays. It's written in Python and GTK and doesn't use C. I know it's
> not the best way to use RandR but it works great on my Intel card.
>
> This is why I wanted to see both TV and TMDS-1 as if they were
> disconnected even if such ports do not exist.
>

I'm not sure I see the logic in showing connectors that don't exist.
It seems like it would confuse users.  Plus, what about other possible
connectors (HDMI, TV-2, DVI, TMDS-2, DisplayPort, MyFuturePort, etc.)?

> Maybe not showing them at all makes more sense and I should modify
> URandr accordingly.

That makes sense to me :)

Alex