No way to distinguish user-created modes in RandR 1.2

Andy Ritger aritger at nvidia.com
Tue Feb 20 15:54:55 PST 2007


Seems reasonable to me.

In addition to just whether a mode is user-created, it might be worth
tracking the "source" of a mode (X server builtin, VESA, EDID, X config
file, etc).

Thanks,
- Andy


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Keith Packard wrote:

> User created modes are different from server-provided ones; you can
> destroy them, and they have to have unique names. As such, it seems like
> it might be useful to identify them in the protocol.
>
> I'm thinking we should just add a MODEFLAG that indicated a user defined
> mode; that will be entirely compatible with current usage and
> implementation.
>
> Any concerns or comments?
>
> -- 
> keith.packard at intel.com
>



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