adding montior redetect to randr

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 12:03 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Hi,
>    I was for some reason thinking about this last night, but how
> useful to people think it would be to add a new Randr request that
> simply allows randr to tell the driver to go off and re-detect the
> monitors plugged into it?

What on earth does monitor detection have to do with RandR? :) Xinerama
seems closer to me.

> As a first step I think this would be useful, I know it won't solve
> the bigger issues (can we change the modelist the driver hands out
> dynamically?? can randr handle that?)

AFAIK the driver can manipulate the mode list in whatever way it pleases
at any time.


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