Anaconda and monitor handling

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 14:36:10 UTC 2005


Peter Jones (pjones at redhat.com) said: 
> > For the short term, it would be nice if someone were to
> > reimplement ddc-probe to use x86emu or some other emulator
> > so that VBE could be used uniformly on all architectures
> > at least.  That would give reasonable consistency between
> > architectures even if it wasn't as complete as what the X
> > server has built in.
> 
> A better plan might be to make the X server's probe routines into their
> own DSO, so when other programs need to do this sort of thing, they can
> use the code which gets the most exposure ;)

... along with fixing X so that it can be started with a blank
monitor section and just figure it out itself. No reason to
'run X probing code, write a config file, have X read that' when
X can just run its own probing code and use the settings directly.

Bill




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