On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 06:17:12PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:42:43 -0800, Aaron Plattner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Unless it's very generic or just a string to present to the user, I don't > > think trying to encode this in the protocol is going to be reasonable. We > > have a bazillion ways that modesets can fail, most of which are due to > > wacky internal limitations that are hard to describe. > > Ok, that was my assumption. We could ship a string back, if you like -- > I've got an X reply heading that direction. Of course, getting that > localized for the user to actually understand it will be nearly > impossible, so it's tempting to just say 'go look at your Xorg.0.log > file for details' or some such.
Yes, I think a generic "sorry, it didn't work" boolean reply is the way to go. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
