Anaconda and monitor handling

[Mike A. Harris]

Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:09 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
>>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 ;)

X.Org accepts new developers rather openly.  Feel free to subscribe
to xorg-arch at lists.x.org with a strawman proposal and plan for
implementing this, and see if it catches interest.  If people
believe that is the way to go, then all it takes is someone to
take charge of moving it forward, and someone to write the code.