Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:24:10AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: > >>So, what happens if I have four identical video cards in my system? > > > > why would you want different configs for them? > > There are probably as many different reasons as there are different > people that have such configurati

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-17 Thread Ian Romanick
Philip Brown wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:52:34PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: Philip Brown wrote: So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserver internal call, isnt it? So, what happens if I hav

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:35:25AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:52:34PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: > > Philip Brown wrote: > > > So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible > > > from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserv

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-17 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:52:34PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > > So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible > > from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserver internal > > call, isnt it? > > So, what happens if I have four

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-17 Thread D. Hageman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Philip Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:55:55PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: > > > So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible > > > from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserver internal > > > call, isnt it? > > > > I

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-16 Thread Ian Romanick
Philip Brown wrote: So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserver internal call, isnt it? So, what happens if I have four identical video cards in my system?

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-16 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:55:55PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: > > So, why not do it by PCI vendor/devid ? That sort of information is visible > > from the DRI level, I believe. I think its just another Xserver internal > > call, isnt it? > > I thought about PCI vendors/devid ... problem with that

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-16 Thread D. Hageman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Philip Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:00:01PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Philip Brown wrote: > > > I think this is a much cleaner overall design. > > > After all, you dont open /dev/fbX and tell it, > > > "I want you to be associated with t

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-16 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:00:01PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Philip Brown wrote: > > I think this is a much cleaner overall design. > > After all, you dont open /dev/fbX and tell it, > > "I want you to be associated with this video card now..." > > The stuff that I talk ab

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-16 Thread D. Hageman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Philip Brown wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:24:26PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: > >... We played around with using Screens and driver > > names, but in the end we were looking at keying off the device identifier. > > At this time I still believe that is the best thing to

Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-15 Thread Philip Brown
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:24:26PM -0600, D. Hageman wrote: >... We played around with using Screens and driver > names, but in the end we were looking at keying off the device identifier. > At this time I still believe that is the best thing to use, but we have > no way at this time of grabbin

[Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

2003-02-15 Thread D. Hageman
Felix and I have been slowing working on a more solidified design of the DRI configuration idea that has been discussed on this list a couple of times. During our last public discussion in which we were talking about configuration file formats we attempted to find a item in which to key every