On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:06:29PM +0200, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> deprogrammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a couple questions about the svgalib target:
> >
> > 1) is pageflipping possible? the pageflip demo doesn't run.
>
> No, not currently, mainly because that requires a linear framebuffer
> from SVGAlib, and I don't have a card supported by SVGAlib anymore.
>
Yes i started to work on this last night, but all i got was a crashed
box :)
> > 2) the svgalib target seems to shutdown properly because when a program
> > ends the console isn't in a perfect state and sometimes requires me to
> > run "reset".. the svgalib demos work perfectly all the time and return
> > me to a good state.. is this a ggi bug or a svgalib bug?..
>
> It would be a bug in GGI's workarounds for SVGAlib bugs. ;)
> We don't use SVGAlib's input handling code at all, becuase it is
> too simple to support our event API.
>
> What version of SVGAlib are you using btw?
>
1.4.2
> > if someone
> > could point me to the code that does the mode handling for svgalib I
> > could probably fix it.
>
> If the 'reset' program fixes the problem it's not a gfx mode problem,
> but a tty mode problem. That code would be in libgii/input/linux-kbd/
> and possibly in libggi/display/linvtsw/
Thanks for the pointer
John McCutchan
