On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:40:18PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:25:21PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:27:50PM +0200, Yitzhak Bar Geva wrote: > >> Greatly encouraged by your response, thanks! > >> > >> "Someone reported that X works with the multi-head console support > >> in Linux 2.5 kernels." > >> > >> I did some searching for multi-head consoles under 2.5 kernel, but > >> didn't see anything. I would be highly appreciative if you could give me > >> some pointers. As far as I could see, the Linux Console Project is > >> defunct, but there is definitely work on multiple input devices going > >> on. > > > >The correct place is the linux-fbdev project on sourceforge, especially > >their mailing list, James Simmon is the main developper of the new > >console code, and you have to look into the late 2.5.5x at least to get > >working stuff. > > > >That said, XFree86 people don't like fbdev much, and anyway, i don't > > Not necessarily :-) I recently wrote an fbdev driver for Intel 830M > and later chipsets (www.xfree86.org/~dawes/intelfb.html, and it should > be in new -ac kernels). It was fun doing some graphics stuff outside > of XFree86 for a change. It's basically a 2.4.x driver right now, and > still needs to be ported to the latest 2.5.6x fbdev interfaces.
Well, the 2.5.x drivers (the new API) are a lot easier to write, since a lot of common stuff has been abstracted. I have plans to write a HOWTO or something once i get time for it again. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
