List alive / help on input drivers
I subscribed to this list about 24 hours ago and still nothing has come through. Is it working properly, or is it just a low volume list at the moment? Anyhow.. on with my question. I'm developing some input / output drivers for the SunRay (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/uni/work/sunray). Somewhat like a hardware VNC terminal. I'm having much trouble with it. But I shalln't go too much into detail until I know this list is actually active... -- Paul Evans (3rd Year CompSci at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (university) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternate) ICQ# 4135350 Registered Linux User: 179460 http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/ ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: List alive / help on input drivers
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:09:48 + Paul Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I subscribed to this list about 24 hours ago and still nothing has come through. Is it working properly, or is it just a low volume list at the moment? Oops. Bad mail settings. _Now_ I've subscribed to it... sorry. -- Paul Evans (3rd Year CompSci at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (university) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternate) ICQ# 4135350 Registered Linux User: 179460 http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/ ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: List alive / help on input drivers
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Paul Evans wrote: Anyhow.. on with my question. I'm developing some input / output drivers for the SunRay (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/uni/work/sunray). Somewhat like a hardware VNC terminal. I take it you have seen the replies Markus Kuhn got when he asked in one of the X lists (might have been xpert or xfree86, not devel) a couple of weeks ago ? At least on devel, you are more likely to get useful answers if you ask specific questions. I haven't much experience of the input side of things, so can't help there, although there is an input plugin interface. Two thoughts to get you started on the output. xc/programs/Xserver/miext/shadow is a shadow layer, which is used by some drivers as a memory framebuffer, and every now and then the bits of the screen that have changed are copied over to the hardware as rectangles. This might be good if you have very few drawing primitives, or reading back the Sun Ray frame-buffer is slow. Not part of XFree86 (for licencing reasons I think) there is an X video driver which renders to a VNC viewer instead of local hardware. I believe it has a home page on sourceforge. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
