Re: Some questions

[Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>]

James Simmons wrote:
>>>We should split the monitor programing stuff out from stuff like bpp etc.
>>>Now if you think about it we can do things like change the bpp without 
>>>having to redo the monitor programming. This is the flaw with the old and 
>>>even the new api. 
>>
>>You could have done that from the beginning. Just look at which fields have
>>changed and which haven't.
> 
> 
> I should of but didn't because I knew driver would take teh path of lest 
> resistance to port there drivers. TO much change would have made the 
> current situtation much much worst. 

One could argue that changing stuff more or less constantly does not 
make it any easier to keep up with a working driver.... :)

Thomas

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