RandR version 1.2 revisited

[Adam Jackson]

On Friday 15 September 2006 03:08, Graeme Gill wrote:

> A more pragmatic approach might be to separate the means of
> identifying the device and transporting the DDC/CI information,
> from it's detailed interpretation. If the latter is left up
> to the application, then there is room for a supplemental
> user side library to deal with keeping a database of different
> monitor peculiarities, and translating raw bytes to/from
> higher level functionality. If this part becomes much
> better understood at some stage (perhaps with some standardized
> descriptor available from monitor manufacturers, or other
> projects such as DDCcontrol), then perhaps it could then be
> absorbed into the X11 side.

Well in theory, it is standardized, and the monitor is supposed to use VESA 
MCCS over DDC/CI.  But.

I like the idea of moving the hardware details client-side, and just using 
RANDR as the transport layer.

- ajax
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