GSoC Idea: Adding support for DMX screens to dix

[Cody Maloney]

Thanks for your comments. I'll probably submit a proposal for both
pieces you broke it into, although I'd lean towards the graphics
hotplugging (specifically writing patches to add the necessary new
hooks to the porting layer, as well as patches to implement the hooks
in the xfree86 backend). If I end up with time left in the summer
after implementing the hooks, then I'd work implementing the udev
hooks.

Thanks,
Cody Maloney

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Cody Maloney
> <cmaloney at theoreticalchaos.com> wrote:
>> Currently the DMX X server works well enough to get display walls up
>> and running. What I'd like to do is make it so that from a running X
>> server you can dynamically add and remove DMX screens, without the
>> need of the seperate DMX proxy server. This would be useful for
>> instance to setup/use network screens/projectors. In addition, over it
>> could move to replace the dmx X server which would mean that dmx would
>> always be up to date with modern extensions. I'm not sure how feasible
>> it is to add it to dix, and if there's a lot of work that needs to be
>> done before it could happen (Removing MAXSCREENS?).
>
> Awesome. I've only glanced over what's needed for this, but it's
> something I'd like to see happen.
>
> It seems to me that there are two substantial projects here, and I
> think they're completely independent.
>
>
>
> I suspect either of those projects alone is easily big enough for
> GSoC--possibly too big. A narrow focus is important.
>
> Jamey
>