Re: RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-14 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: great that you are looking into this ! See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704387 for previous thoughts on this. Excellent, thanks! There's a lot of good info there. I've posted some questions - should we continue the

Re: RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 20:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: great that you are looking into this ! See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704387 for previous thoughts on this. Excellent, thanks!

RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
Dear lovers of exotic hardware, There are now laptops with two GPUs, and RANDR 1.4 supports configuring them in multiple ways. I'll quote from the RANDR specification: Version 1.4 adds a new object called a provider object. A provider object represents a GPU or virtual device providing

Re: RANDR 1.4 and multiple GPUs

2014-02-13 Thread Matthias Clasen
Does anyone know what the expected behavior is? Some things should keep working as normal (hit the SWITCHVIDEOMODE hotkey should cycle you among multi-monitor modes; plugging a monitor should do the right thing...), with the software hooking up the appropriate providers/sources/sinks. But