On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just finished the creation of a repository on people.debian.org >> that provides the packages needed to run Debian GNU/Linux on the >> Toshiba AC100 notebook device. > > good call, julian! btw do you happen to know of anyone who's > replaced the screen with a 1280x800 or even a 1200x720?
ok, julian: thank you to anders for notifying me that someone has in fact changed their LCD display on their toshiba AC100 to something that's actually useable for a programmer. or a human. question: what is the best way to actually take into account, *without* requiring a total recompile of the linux kernel, *without* requiring a rebuild of any debian gnu/linux packages, variations in LCD screen size when the "norm" is that both the LCD and the data structures in the linux kernel are typically static and non-changeable? in some ways this is a rhetorical / leading question (but isn't really) - i'm aware that there's usually an I2C ROM or other mechanism for reading EDID data off of the LCD panel, to obtain its size... it's just that this simply isn't done in the linux kernel source code itself. 2ndary question: has anyone encountered any linux kernel source code where reading of the LCD panel's I2C ROM is actually done and used to correctly start up whatever quotes embedded quotes LCD panel is attached to the device? l. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ac100 Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ac100 More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
