On 30/07/2008, at 9:59 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/problem_statement/ > > Some specific comments on pieces in my neck of the woods: > >> DSK-4: Systems (including laptops) upon connecting to an >> external >> video display, should automatically probe the >> resolutions of >> that external display and provide an easy interface >> (on the >> panel, or through the menus) to set the display to >> that external >> device. > > I don't know if anyone is working on that or not - but I've heard at > Xorg that > on some hardware, polling for newly connected monitors is a big > battery drain - > and on other hardware, we just can't do it, so manual methods will > still > be needed on those machines.
That seems fine to me - it would be nice to have some graphical way of switching though if possible. I know there's some work in various parts of the GNOME community to make this a little nicer - http://live.gnome.org/RandR1.2 http://www.bryceharrington.org/drupal/display-config-2 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport I *think* some of that work has been folded into 2.24, so hopefully we can easily pick it up. >> DSK-8: Provide the set of 'known to work' XOrg graphics drivers to >> allow some >> SPARC systems to run a graphical desktop environment. > > > So what counts as "known to work Xorg graphics drivers"? I can > fairly easily > build & package all the SPARC graphics drivers that work on Xorg on > Linux/SPARC, > including many which the Sun SPARC graphics team would prefer to EOL > - but would > have to leave testing/tweaking/fixing to someone else, and I don't > know which, > if any, work on Solaris/SPARC. (Well, I know which ones Martin > Bochnig said he > got to work, but many of those included adding the equivalent of / > dev/xsvc to > SPARC to get direct access to the hardware behind the kernel & fb > driver's back, > and I can guess how badly trying to get that past PSARC will fly.) Is having no drivers better than having broken drivers? Agreed that this is a lofty goal and many SPARC systems will be headless anyway. Wonder if it's something that we should at least try and push towards the contrib repository? Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
