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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, xorg-devel@lists.x.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change initial modesetting if outputs are aligned in 1 dimension
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:48:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE6A59E.8080009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110601224427.0a38f818@schatten.dmk.lab>

On 6/1/11 4:44 PM, Florian Mickler wrote:
> I think using horizontal spanning as a default is a good idea.
>
> Also bringing all outputs up in their preferred mode could be the right
> move.
>
> [That commit in question wouldn't help my case, since I have a "Right Of" in the
> xorg.conf and thus it would use a different code-path (right now).]

Oh, sure, I see what you're saying.

> When there is no preferred mode, xf86ClosestMode (probably enhanced to
> respect horizontal or vertical relation in some form) would still be
> needed... choosing of mode and positioning of outputs
> relative to each other should probably be decoupled...

Probably.  But in your case, why would you not just pick the preferred 
mode for all outputs, rather than contorting to try to pick modes with 
the same height?

- ajax

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 13:41 since kernel commit cb0953d734: X chooses wrong resolution at startup Florian Mickler
2011-05-18 15:17 ` Adam Jackson
2011-05-18 16:15   ` Florian Mickler
2011-05-18 17:03     ` Florian Mickler
2011-06-01 10:06       ` [PATCH] change initial modesetting if outputs are aligned in 1 dimension Florian Mickler
2011-06-01 19:30         ` Adam Jackson
2011-06-01 20:44           ` Florian Mickler
2011-06-01 20:48             ` Adam Jackson [this message]
2011-06-01 21:06               ` Florian Mickler
2011-06-01 21:30                 ` Adam Jackson

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