Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH]: EDID parser

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:05:54PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On  3 Apr 03 at 14:38, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:05:13PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > No. With matroxfb, you have two framebuffer devices, /dev/fb0 & /dev/fb1,
> > > which can be connected to any of three outputs: analog primary, analog
> > > secondary and DVI. Analog primary & DVI share same pair of DDC cables,
> > > and analog secondary has its own... And user can interconnect fb* with
> > > outputs in almost any way he wants, as long as hardware supports it.
> > 
> > Mmm, i have not been into fbdev much lately, but for my X devel work, i
> > believe thta it is a good thing to separate the framebuffer issues from
> > the output issues, and thus, for the card i have at least, have one
> > function where the per chip things are done (memory detection, bypass
> > unit handling, framebuffer and memory management) and another set of
> > functions which would be head, that is output, specific. This way, you
> > would configure the /dev/fbx and when the user which to use this or that
> > output, the DDC will be connected to the output, not the framebuffer.
> > This seems a reasonable way of doing this and should solve your problem,
> > no ?
> 
> Of course. But because of James decided that fbdev layer will automatically
> choose appropriate resolution only from xres/yres, I need to have monitor
> capabilities at the time upper layer asks to set videomode on /dev/fbx...
> And it just sets it on /dev/fbx, leaving out both VTs (so I cannot remember
> what mode was probed on each VT anymore) and outputs.

Mmm, and at what time is the fbdev->output mapping done ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther