[Bug 38032] New: "Broken NVIDIA RandR detected" warning needs improvement

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38032

            Bug ID: 38032
           Summary: "Broken NVIDIA RandR detected" warning needs
                    improvement
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.36
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: winex11.drv
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: abolte at systemsaviour.com
      Distribution: ---

This relates to bug #34348 "Wine xrandr12 failure", which concerns nVidia
proprietary drivers not adhering to expected RandR 1.0+ behaviour. Until nVidia
addresses the problems preventing Wine from using RandR 1.3 reliably for its
intended purpose, Wine warns the user that it is falling back to RandR 1.0 as a
workaround. It does this by printing the following warning message very
frequently:

"Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using
the Nouveau driver instead."

(line 488 of dlls/winex11.drv/xrandr.c as of 1.7.36)

The user is reminded of this every time winex11.drv is loaded, which is
apparently quite frequently - even for command-line applications. Due to the
overuse of the warning, it comes off very strong and may cause unnecessary
worry. It may also present annoyances for developers looking through future bug
reports that are filled with this message.

I suggest this situation can be improved by the following two proposals:

1. this only be printed the first time winex11.drv is loaded.

2. the message changed to point to a wiki page or man page with a short
description of the problem, or even the URL of bug #34348. eg.

"Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please refer to
http://wiki.winehq.org/RandR" 

This would allow users to understand what has happened and decide for
themselves what course of action should be taken. Otherwise, I don't think a
user will get a sufficient level of understanding from one line of text, and
(unlike most Wine output) this one is aimed at the user and not so much at
developers debugging something.

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