On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 08 14:37:30 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:51 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: >> > - Apparently there are only 8, 16, and 32bit integers available as >> > property types. Having ATOMs and FLOATs would add semantics, which >> > could help in some cases. But if this implies some changes throughout >> > the system, I don't think this is helpful. If it's basically xrandr, >> > it would be easy. >> >> ATOMs are obviously supported, but FLOATs seem harder as they aren't >> described in the core protocol anywhere. > > Thinking about that, adding floats was probably a bull idea. However, > having semantics about ATOMs might be helpful (e.g. for xrandr or any > general purpose property setting tool). > >> For the TV signalling type, I think we'll need more options; PAL has a >> lot of variants that we'll want to expose. I'm also thinking we want to >> expose a separate TV signalling property and leave the general property >> as 'TV' or some such. > > Reasonable. Thinking about that. > Types of PAL are typically PAL-B, -G, -H, -I, -M, -D, -N, -Nc > Similar for NTSC and SECAM. Any additional features? > > Actually, single link/dual link, number of DisplayPort links, etc. could > be set in the same property.
I'd make that a generic transition frequency and an the total number of links, unless there are connections that don't scale linearly in number of links. > > Adding this as SignalProperties. > >> > - Panning - Keith indicated pretty strongly that this should be part of >> > the protocol level, and not a property. Haven't dealt with that yet, >> > it's still in the diff. >> >> Yeah, we'll need stacks of code to manage this property, so it's not >> just informational like most of the other properties. > > Agreed. Thinking about that. Find a protocol suggestion in the next > diff. > > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ > Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
