Some thoughts

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 03:43 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:01:39AM -0500, Ivan Krstic wrote:
> > - Being a dual-head user, configuring the displays properly to actually 
> > extend the screen as opposed to simply mirroring it was a nightmare. 
> > Scott Remnant was kind enough to share with me his XF86Config; ideally, 
> > this would be solved in the future with an applet as opposed to a 
> > 120-minute edit conf-restart X-retry sequence.
> 
> Ideally, this would be solved by automagically configuring multiple
> displays in a reasonable default configuration, and allowing the user to
> tweak it with a GUI app.
> 
> Unfortunately, these things are not trivial, and I don't know of any work in
> progress.  Patches would be gratefully received.

It also happens to be different between ati and fglrx and nv and nvidia
and i810 and savage and ...

It's different for every single chip, and there's no sensible way to do
it.  Not to mention working out which monitor is the one on the left.