single logical screen EDID proposal
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
ku.b at gmx.de
Wed Apr 19 06:44:23 PDT 2006
The proposal is attached to bug #3910
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3910
Kai-Uwe
Am 19.04.06, 09:29 +0200 schrieb Kai-Uwe Behrmann:
> EDID information describing inbuild display capabilities is stored
> into one property in the root window of a X server.
>
> Single logical screen configurations with a unified root window across
> all screens have just one root window to store such information for all
> physical screens. Currently no EDID is stored in that root window at all
> (tested with Xorg-6.8 and twinview style nvidia configuration).
>
> To let client side application access these valuable data, my proposal
> suggests to use following behaviour
>
> 1. XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA root property is created for the 0 (first)
> screen. This is as is today.
>
> 2. XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA_[1-9] properties follow up for each
> additional screen inside a single logical screen configuration.
>
> The numbering in point 2 should follow the screen numbering.
>
>
> The advantage is the current behaviour remains for single physical
> screen configurations and multi screen configurations with one root
> window per physical screen.
> For single logical screen configurations the same information set would
> then become available through the proposed additional properties.
>
>
> I followed the nomenclatura found in a older user manual.
> Even though termes used are a bit confusing like "screen" <-> "xinerama
> screen" or physical versus logical. But this is possibly due to the
> current transition to a Xinerama alike behaviour.
>
>
> regards
> Kai-Uwe Behrmann
> + development for color management
> + imaging / panoramas
> + email: ku.b at gmx.de
> + http://www.behrmann.name
>
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