I was leaning that way myself... Alex
--- Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > Next, mergedfb... > > > > I've been thinking about creating generic xfree support functions > to > > replace the chipset specific ones for mergedfb. This would make it > > easier to add mergedfb to other chipsets that support dualhead. > Where > > should this live? also, as far as pseudo-xinerama, should that be > made > > part of the generic mergedfb code or part of xinerama proper? > i.e., to > > extend xinerama to handle both multi-card and single card xinerama. > Or > > is all of this going to be refactored in xfree 5? > > IMHO, pseudo-Xinerama as we have it today is far from being perfect, > partly because MergedFB mode does not fit into the Xinerama idea of > two > fixed-sized screens (RandR ignored here) with a fixed boundary > between them. > > I'd prefer extending Xinerama for MergedFB specifics instead, and > removing that pseudo-stuff in the long term. > > However, this would require some enhancements for the Xinerama > extension > (signals to clients, etc). That is, if at all, XF5 material, I guess. > > Thomas > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
