Some thoughts

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 05:08 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:43:58PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > It also happens to be different between ati and fglrx and nv and nvidia
> > and i810 and savage and ...
> 
> Isn't that the sort of thing that the X server should abstract?

Yes.

> > Not to mention working out which monitor is the one on the left.
> 
> Easy: pick one, and let the user swap it from the GUI if it's wrong.

Agreed.