On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:36 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > 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. For comparison Xdarwin already does this using IOKit/X drivers, and no config file. I haven't looked in depth at it though. Paul