[Patch] Allow to configure RANDR 1.2 outputs with no device attached

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Mar 12 13:26:34 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 13:06 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:

> > Another useful option will be to have the driver report a few standard
> > modes even when no outputs use them so that we can just add them to
> > disconnected outputs without needing to program them explicitly from the
> > client side.
> 
> If the client program is in the business of letting the user set modes
> on the device that the device doesn't report on its own, doesn't the
> client program really want to allow the setting of arbitrary modes (a
> modeline, or enough information to generate a CVT modeline) anyway?  It
> seems like having the server allocate extra unused modes isn't going to
> win us anything here.

It already has this option; listing the three @60 modes will just reduce
the need to add modes by hand; dunno if that's a good plan or not.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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