Re: Hooking into mode setting: How to do it cleanly ?

2003-03-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:04:15AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:49, Mark Vojkovich wrote: It's worth considering a helper function in the core server on Linux PPC that knows how to talk to the IVAD controller. These drivers could call it at the

Re: blocking during open

2003-03-12 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, jkjellman wrote: I am having a little trouble with an open on a pipe. Here is offending line xf86open( /namedpipe, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ); FYI, in the xf86open case I have already modified xfToOsOpenFlags to allow xf86Open to use the O_NONBLOCK flag. Sorry if I'm

Re: blocking during open

2003-03-12 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, jkjellman wrote: I am having a little trouble with an open on a pipe. Here is offending line xf86open( /namedpipe, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ); I note from the comment in xfToOsOpenFlags that O_RDONLY is zero (set in xf86_libc.h) so this flag never reaches the real open !

Re: Half-QWERTY keyboard support: help!

2003-03-12 Thread Kamil Toman
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:39:11PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to add support to XFree86 for 'half-QWERTY' typing. I'm not sure whether this fits into the X keyboard scheme, because it involves [...] I forgot to add -- even if

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2003-03-12 Thread ciara mulvihill
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A question about wide aspect panels

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Cuss
Hello all, I have a question regarding wide aspect LCD panels and XFree... I'm thinking about a new laptop (a Dell Inpsiron 8500) that was a wide aspect LCD (1920 x 1200). I've never run XFree86 on anything other than a 4:3 ratio monitor, and am wondering if this wide aspect screen would

Re: A question about wide aspect panels

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Cuss
Thanks very much! Does a laptop manufacturer typically provide all of the details required to generate a modeline? Resolution, horizontal, and vertical rates shouldn't be a problem... The only one I'm not familiar with is the dot clock - how would a person go about figuring this out? Thanks

Re: A question about wide aspect panels

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Cuss wrote: Hello all, I have a question regarding wide aspect LCD panels and XFree... I'm thinking about a new laptop (a Dell Inpsiron 8500) that was a wide aspect LCD (1920 x 1200). I've never run XFree86 on anything other than a 4:3 ratio monitor, and am

VESA FBconsole driver?

2003-03-12 Thread Kendall Bennett
Hi Guys, I asked this question on the Linux kernel mailing list, but either nobody has any experience in this area or they are ignoring me ;-) Anyway, a long time ago I remember there was a guy working on a VESA FBconsole driver for Linux. Then driver he was working on was structured as a