On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 19:43 +0200, Jörg Walter wrote: > On Tuesday, 21. October 2008, you wrote: > > The order is arbitrary and changing it would break existing setups. > > Also, the radeon driver has had randr 1.2 support for much longer than > > radeonhd or fglrx. > > Still, all other drivers, including Windows, agree on "first" vs. "second" > output connector, regardless of RandR 1.2 or not -- point is, if I switch > drivers or OS, my primary display suddenly isn't primary anymore, kdm appears > on the wrong screen, as does the taskbar or yakuake.
The thing is, I don't think RandR 1.2 defines a 'primary' CRTC/output at all. It sounds like things should be fine if clients remembered things from the names or geometry of outputs rather than their arbitrary enumeration order. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati