xrandx responds with too many modes.

[H. Verbeet]

On 04/01/2008, Peter Dons Tychsen <donpedro at tdcadsl.dk> wrote:
> The xrandx X11 extension is very handy.
> Using it for wine makes great sense.
>
> But... the extension also enumerates a whopping amount of modes.
> Each resolution has a multitude of frequencies and bit-depth variants.
>
> Some applications are simply not prepared for that magnitude of
> information when they call EnumDisplaySettings() (user32) or
> EnumDisplayModes (ddraw).
>
> When using "normal" windows, only a few modes are returned.
>
> I know its not a bug, as it could happen on Windows if someone published
> a driver which implemented tons of silly and crooked modes.
>
> Would it be acceptable to insert a filter in xrandx.c (X11-drv),
> which only allowed "normal" windows resolutions to be enumerated?
> Does anyone need those awkward ones?
>
> The filter would look allot like the one in desktop.c (X11-drv) which is
> currently used by the desktop mode.
>
> I already fixed a portion of the bugs caused by this, as there was a
> natural limitation which should be set by EnumDisplayModes() which was
> not honored. I sent in patch for this already. So at least now we can
> play the classic "Grand Theft Auto"....
>
> Thanks,
>
> /p
>
Is this with a specific X driver? The binary nvidia driver only lists
modes explicitly declared in xorg.conf.