Re: XFree86 5.0 TODO

Sven Luther writes:
 > :(((
???

 > 
 > Would you care to explain a bit more about how this would work ? And in

I have no clear draft yet. So you'd have to wait.

 > particular why there cannot be a common set of functionalities, where
 > chips not supporting them just not implementing them or something such ? 

Sure, there will be a registry where you can register attributes
your driver offers. If another driver wants to offer the same it
should reuse this attribute.
You can query which attributes are offered by a specific driver
and you can query the type and range of its arguments.

 > 
 > Or are there really all that much difference between how a matrox and a
 > ati dual head card do it ?
 > 

Possibly not. But I would not rule out that you want to add something
specific for a certain card where you can be pretty sure no other card
will ever offer it.

Egbert.