On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:02:11 +0000
José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Felix Kühling wrote:
> > Now we could make the command line tool (and the corresponding libGL
> > bits) a bit more sophisticated. With an X connection we can ask for
> > the driver name and configuration of any screen. That would enable a
> > graphical configuration tool to configure all screens, not just the
> > one it's running on. Without an X connection we can still get the
> > configuration of a specific driver as you explained above. That would
> > be mainly usefull for remote administration, where no local X
> > connection is available. José, is that what you meant with offline
> > mode?
>
> Yes, no local X connection is actually a much better choice of words.
>
> > I'll make the conclusions from this thread a new section in the next
> > version of the design document. To me it looks like we got a pretty
> > good picture what the command line tool will do. Any more comments on
> > that subject?
>
> Just the comment that spite of the decision to not storying the location
> of the DRI drivers in the config file (for later use when there is no
> local X connect available), any console/GUI tool which wants to be able
> to function properly in those circunstances (and not depend on X being
> installed on /usr/X11R6/) can still do it on its own (by storing that
> information on its own configuration file), if its author decides that's
> really important. So there's no loss here.
My conclusion was that X has nothing to do with locating the drivers.
libGL always looks in $ProjectRoot/lib/modules/dri or in the path given
by LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH. So the only additional information to store for
the case that there's no local X connection available would be the
driver name. That would actually be no problem with the current
configuration file format. A device section could have both, a screen
and a driver attribute.
One more advantage of having both attributes at the same time is that a
configuration GUI with a local X connection could detect a major change
in the hardware configuration.
I had given up on the idea of allowing remote graphical configuration.
But it doesn't seem to be such a big deal after all.
>
> José Fonseca
Felix
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