Need review for #3180 please

[Alan Coopersmith]

Kean Johnston wrote:
> 
>> So it should probably depend on whether or not it's being called from
>> xorgcfg, not #ifdef'ed per OS - perhaps adding a boolean to 
>> XF86ConfMonitorRec
>> to specify whether the numbers were being overridden and have xorgcfg
>> set that when needed - unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with this
>> part of the system to know how good an idea that is.
> 
> Personally I think its overkill. I think the current code
> in Monitor.c is just plain wrong, especially from an intuitive
> point of view. The purpose of that code is to write out config
> entries based on input values. The way it currently stands, it
> is ignoring those values and applying other semantics to it,
> thus knowing that if you leave them all undefined, you get DDC.

Actually, I've just realized this is the same thing Mike Harris filed
as Xorg bugzilla #1223 a while ago.   I don't know why that was never
checked in.


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