Hal and Xorg output devices

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 09:17:31 PST 2005


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:14:13 +0200 (IST), Ely Levy
<elylevy-xserver at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> After getting a bit more info I think I can make my email clearer,
> I think that a big step in hardware handling in Xorg can be done by
> moving output devices into hal instead of xorg.conf.
> I see the following isues

Do we want to do this for the current X server? Or would it be better
to spend the effort on the new fbdev/DRM XGL base layer? In the
fbdev/DRM model mode setting and monitor config is managed at a much
lower level.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl at gmail.com



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