Hal and Xorg output devices

[David Nusinow]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:14:13PM +0200, Ely Levy wrote:
> 2)Hal should be the one handling dcc and edid information, added to this
> it should also have a list of bad cards/screen that provid bad information
> and to send the correct information instead.
> 3)X should be able to get all resolutions the card/screen can do as to
> decide on the buffer size letter the user to freely chose his resolution.

Is Hal even currently capable of finding dcc and edid information? The
system.display namespace seems to be lacking right now, although I've only
glanced through the code quickly.

> 4)Can hal know which screen is connected to which card?
> 
> I don't know hal that well but I think it would require to add a screen
> namepspace and I guess the screen card would get its info from the pci
> namespace.

There is already the system.display namespace in the 0.5 spec, but it's
basically just to tell you if it's a CRT or LCD, and what the LCD brightness is.

 - David Nusinow