RandR 1.3 additions?

[Matthias Hopf]

On Jan 22, 08 12:03:15 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > could be used as the "standard" properties for choosing an encoder
> > > though.  That said I think in the long run having encoder objects is
> > > clearer.  It's be nice to know that the VGA port and the TV port
> > > shared the same actual encoder rather than just signal format
> > > "analog."
> >
> > Signal formats for VGA and TV differ significantly enough. "analog" is
> > certainly no valid description for a signal format, and hasn't been
> > proposed in the spec update.
> 
> Right, but my point was that you want to know which encoder is used
> rather than just the signal format.  The encoder would dictate the
> signal format.    Although I suppose you'd want both since it would be
> nice to have a standard way of knowing the signal type as well.

Hm, the encoder will vary from card to card. Yes, it would be preferable
if even the encoder was abstracted, though this would be very card
dependent. Feel free to add something related to my proposal, I don't
have a good feeling ATM how this should look like.

Matthias

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