Re: [Dri-devel] DRIInfoRec, Identifiers and DRI Configuration

[Philip B. <ph...@bo...>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:24:10AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
> >>So, what happens if I have four identical video cards in my system?
> > 
> > why would you want different configs for them?
> 
> There are probably as many different reasons as there are different 
> people that have such configurations.  One that I can think of really 
> easy is that you might have different monitors one each (small flat 
> panel on one, large CRT on another).  A person might use each head for a 
> different purpose.  You might want different settings for the head that 
> you have your UI on than the head that you do render pre-views on.

Then you pretty much HAVE TO go with a screen-number based config one way
or another. 

[particularly if your yardstick is "what does ms-windows do?"]

You could use the pci ids to check to see if the device has changed. But
otherwise, I think just a straight screen-num based set of configs would
make the most sense.