Anaconda and monitor handling

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:36 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Peter Jones (pjones at redhat.com) 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