ubuntu bulletproof x

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 10:44 -0600, Richi Plana wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:16 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > It really is too bad that the Modes can't be changed on the fly
> > (without
> > > needing an X restart).
> > 
> > In RANDR 1.2 they can.
> > 
> > Ideally someone will write a usable frontend to it - so you can do mode
> > injection and fallback recovery with a nice pretty UI - and we'll get
> > all the drivers ported over to the RANDR 1.2 API.  That will be winning.
> 
> OMG. Does that mean being able to change any parameter in a given
> modeline?
> 
> Modeline "1280x1024"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync
>                       ^^^^^^  ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^  ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ -> Any of these will be changeable on the fly?

>From 'xrandr -h':

  --newmode <name> <clock MHz>
            <hdisp> <hsync-start> <hsync-end> <htotal>
            <vdisp> <vsync-start> <vsync-end> <vtotal>
            [+HSync] [-HSync] [+VSync] [-VSync]

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