client side ddc/ci

[Xavier Bestel]

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 19:07 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > how would one talk with a monitor over DDC/CI on a user side, non root
> > application. I would like to do monitor gamma curves I/O, EDID polling and
> > other non standard communication.
> >
> > The /dev/i2c-xxx device nodes are root access only on my system. I can
> > chmod them with o+rw, but thats shurely not the general solution.
> >
> > What is a good place to start with in Xorg?
> >
> > I have seen the ddc/XF64DDC.[h,c] and i2c/xf86i2c.[h,c] modules in the
> > server. Is already one of those APIs exposed?
> >
> > As I understand, the root windows or xrandr output EDID atom is a one time
> > thing and too static for my needs.
> >
> 
> You'd need to add protocol for the client side apps to talk to the X server,.
> 
> you could possibly do this with xrandr properties or extending xrandr,
> then drivers would have to talk to the i2c via X i2c or kernel i2c in kms case.

Have a look at http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/ for a working
implementation that bypasses the X server (although as says Dave, going
through Xrandr looks like the right thing to do).

	Xav