RandR bugs

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 16:44, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > Why do you need to reinitialize the extension ?
> >
> > For RandR it works off the modepool. There's nothing stopping a driver
> > ripping the modepool apart and revalidating it. Thus forcing RandR to
> > export new supported resolutions.
>
> I stand corrected. Don't know why I was under impression that these
> extensions only read-out the available modes during initialisation. Both
>  allow adding/removing modes anytime in fact.

Would it be a good idea then to extend RandR with an option that asks the 
driver to do just that (rip the modepool apart and revalidate it)? That would 
be a useful step towards a more adaptable X server IMHO.

Cheers,
Waldo
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Linux Client Architect - Channel Software Operation - Intel Corporation