RE: [Dri-devel] Adding hardware detection to DRI drivers

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:01, Jon Smirl wrote:
> 
> Now assuming no xconfig file...
> xfree loads, opens the first DRM device, and gets SUGGESTED_UNIQUE.
> That will tell Xfree what video hardware to use.
> Modes are all determined by the EDID/hardware exchange.
> This should be enough to get xfree started without a config file.

This doesn't change anything for stuff like input devices though.

Anyway, there's code in XFree86 CVS already which allows the X server to
start with no config file using a different approach.


> This new scheme allows the entire PCI probing stage of xfree to be eliminated.

I'll believe it when the relevant XFree86 developers agree with you. :)


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