Hal and Xorg output devices

[Ely Levy]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David Nusinow wrote:

> 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.

It can't AFAICS.


> > 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.

Hmm I missed that one when I went over the specs,
It shouldnt be too hard to add the rest of them.
We can probebly preety much copy them from the edid info.

>  - David Nusinow
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Ely