On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:29:26PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote: > On Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 at 14:22, Johan Hovold <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I was just going to post a patch fixing this after finally investigating > > why the DisplayPort outputs on the X13s were annoyingly identified as > > "Unknown20-1" and "Unknown20-2" instead of the expected "DP-1" and > > "DP-2". > > Note, ideally userspace should use drmModeGetConnectorTypeName() from > libdrm to figure out the proper name for a connector type. That way we > only need to update a single spot when adding a new connector type, > instead of patching a whole bunch of programs.
Yeah, I only skimmed the xrandr code and these strings appear to originate from some X library. So hopefully not that many places to update. Scripts and other tools may still be using these strings directly however (e.g. as did my custom script to enable external displays). Johan
