RandR 1.3 additions?

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Tue Jan 22 01:14:37 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 09:10 +0100, Dirk Thierbach wrote:

> Also, every such block can get parameters, directly or indirectly,
> from the modeline (which would also need to be generalized). Then we
> would finally have enough infrastructure to support TV encoders on
> external chips (some of which need a lot of paramaters which cannot be
> easily calculated from the modeline as it is now).

That, at least, is already available in RandR through output properties
which can be made 'pending' and take effect on the next mode set.

> Expose both, in a way that makes sense to the user. Also, provide
> the user with some default paths, so he can just say "turn on the
> monitor", "turn on both both monitor and TV", "turn on only TV".

I think this just requires some conventions in output property names and
values.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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