embedded

2003-03-13 Thread ciara mulvihill
thanks for all the help, here is more info.: We plan on taking apart the kernal of the embedded OS. to fit it on a floppy make it like 200k or less. We are not really worrying about the applications, it'll be something at the end if we have time. ciara and ronan. hey Ronan and Ciara here,

DDC Atoms Xinerama

2003-03-13 Thread Ben Guthro
I am attempting to do some things that are somewhat unconventional, and have so far been unable to find documentation on how to accomplish this. I have poted a similar query to some newsgroups, but so far have not got an answer I need. I am in the process of writing hardware / software monitor

Re: DDC Atoms Xinerama

2003-03-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On 13 Mar 2003, Ben Guthro wrote: I am in the process of writing hardware / software monitor color calibration software for linux under Qt. In doing so, determining the monitor hardware that is currently running is quite paramount. The DDC seems to probe the monitors, then store this EDID

Re: A question about wide aspect panels

2003-03-13 Thread David Monniaux
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mark Cuss wrote: be a problem... The only one I'm not familiar with is the dot clock - how would a person go about figuring this out? Perhaps the panel is detected by DDC? In this case, you need no modeline. Last time I had a laptop that needed a modeline, the

Re: VESA FBconsole driver?

2003-03-13 Thread Kendall Bennett
I wrote: 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 user land daemon that the kernel console driver would call back into once the system was up, allowing the userland VESA driver to use the vm86()

Re: VESA FBconsole driver?

2003-03-13 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: I wrote: 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 user land daemon that the kernel console driver would call back into once the system was up,

Some patches to luit

2003-03-13 Thread ITO Tsuyoshi
Hello, list, It seems xc/programs/luit/sys.c in XFree86 4.3.0 contains a off-by-one bug. A patch (sys.c.patch) to fix this is attached. Besides, I have some more modifications to luit which is useful on FreeBSD: - Make luit use openpty to search an unused pty. Without this patch, luit aborts

Re: VESA FBconsole driver?

2003-03-13 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No-one has responded to this email, so either no-one remembers this or people think someone else responded to my email ;-) I think you just have the wrong mailing list. Actually I posted here