On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:17:27 +0000 (GMT) Andrew C Aitchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ? Yes. I saw some generals but nothing specific. I have some specifics now; now that I'm working on XFree now. > 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. I can't read back the SunRay's screen buffer... however, I do have lots of nice drawing primitives (screen-to-screen copy; set bitmaps of 2 colours, etc...) > 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. I'm actually working on input at the moment, using my i740 output driver to view on my desktop. Once I have mouse and keyboard working then I'll start on the output. But more in a new thread... -- 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
