Peter Jones (pjones@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > For the short term, it would be nice if someone were to > > reimplement ddc-probe to use x86emu or some other emulator > > so that VBE could be used uniformly on all architectures > > at least. That would give reasonable consistency between > > architectures even if it wasn't as complete as what the X > > server has built in. > > A better plan might be to make the X server's probe routines into their > own DSO, so when other programs need to do this sort of thing, they can > use the code which gets the most exposure ;) ... along with fixing X so that it can be started with a blank monitor section and just figure it out itself. No reason to 'run X probing code, write a config file, have X read that' when X can just run its own probing code and use the settings directly. Bill