On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:24:39PM -0500, D. Sen wrote:
> Yeah, I am looking forward to
> 1) having ex2fs hybernation files
I guess they might see this as unnecessary since it's easy enough to put a
small FAT partition on the disk. I don't know what the hibernation file
involves so it might actually be quite easy for them to implement it on ext2
while they are doing the following.
> 2) an equivalent of the PS2 command under linux
That would be good, and I guess pretty much required if they are going to
ship machines with Linux on them.
> 3) the modem working (with possible specs of the MWAVE DSP...so we can
> muck around with it)
Maybe they just won't install Linux on the machines with modems in them...
> 4) ability to switch between external (70+ hz refresh rates) monitor
> and internal LCD display (60 Hz refresh rates) ...perhaps this is more
> of a neo-magic issue....*shrug*.
This must be an X server issue, surely. It's the X server which dictates
the refresh rate so you need to tell the server to switch. This could be
done (I assume) in XFree using the ctrl-alt-plus facility by defining two
modes at different refresh rates. Other servers might have better ways to
do it. And in theory the server could also make the switch from internal to
external display; how to do this could be found from reading the source of
the NeoMagic driver in XF86_SVGA.
> 5) USB/IR functionality.....(perhaps not an IBM/RH issue either)
USB and IR are both being developed in the Linux community, as I understand
it.
imc
