On 23 January 2014 05:24, Alexander E. Patrakov <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014/1/23 Keith Packard <[email protected]>: >> Andy Ritger <[email protected]> writes: >>
>>> * How should hotplug of the monitor's second tile be handled by the >>> server if it is hiding the two tiles? Should such a hotplug generate >>> a connected event to RandR clients? Maybe a hotplug on either tile >>> gets reported as a connect event on the one API-facing output. >> >> Presumably you'd only want to report 'connected' if both wires were >> hooked up? Otherwise, the monitor isn't really useful. > > In the pathological sitiation when only one wire is hooked up, I guess > that the monitor is still usable at its original size and aspect > ratio, just not at full resolution. Someone has to verify this. If > this is so, then "unplug one 1920x1080 monitors, plug two mirrored 4K > monitors" sounds more appropriate. Or, if the fact that the other half > exists is detectable from EDID, we can indeed not support single-wire > operation. > Why is this pathological? Does the screen fail when only one input is connected or the two inputs are connected to different machines? I don't have a tiled monitor but any monitor with more than one input I ever had I ended up using with more than one computer at some time because I tend to have more computers than monitors around. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
