From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:25:26 +0000 Subject: Re: event sequencing Message-Id: <9e473391050225222566555d52@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <9e473391050225081838f673c7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e473391050225081838f673c7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:35:37 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Hm, I don't think the kernel knows about a "monitor", just a fb device. > Right Jon? Correct. Current changes are under way to make one fb device per head. I could make a sysfs monitor entry but you would not want a class_device since there is no major and /dev device for monitors. Personally I would rather rework something like radeonfb into three devices, the base card and two heads (monitors), but that's not the way fbdev is going. The change would require rewriting 75 existing video device drivers. Maybe in 2.7 if ten more fbdev developers show up. This situation is normally triggered by people with KVM switches which can be used to change the monitor attached to the video card. There have been numerous complaints filed against X. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel