> > how would one talk with a monitor over DDC/CI on a user side, non root > application. I would like to do monitor gamma curves I/O, EDID polling and > other non standard communication. > > The /dev/i2c-xxx device nodes are root access only on my system. I can > chmod them with o+rw, but thats shurely not the general solution. > > What is a good place to start with in Xorg? > > I have seen the ddc/XF64DDC.[h,c] and i2c/xf86i2c.[h,c] modules in the > server. Is already one of those APIs exposed? > > As I understand, the root windows or xrandr output EDID atom is a one time > thing and too static for my needs. >
You'd need to add protocol for the client side apps to talk to the X server,. you could possibly do this with xrandr properties or extending xrandr, then drivers would have to talk to the i2c via X i2c or kernel i2c in kms case. Dave. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
