Re: acquire

2000-01-16 Thread Erik Thiele
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 04:40:07AM +0100, Andreas Beck wrote: i didn't do the correct code: if (ggiResourceMustAcquire(dbs[writeframe]-resource)) if (ggiResourceAcquire(dbs[writeframe]-resource,GGI_ACTYPE_WRITE)!=0) instead i did: if (ggiResourceMustAcquire(dbs[writeframe]))

Re: ggiplay

2000-01-16 Thread teunis
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, W.H.Scholten wrote: Rubén wrote: On 2000/Jan/13, W.H.Scholten wrote: Well, not precompiled. What I mean is that it uses an abstracted system of pcm/mixer/synth/cd in directly accessable libraries. Compile the libraries for a new audio system and the server

on void pointers and invisibility

2000-01-16 Thread teunis
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Erik Thiele wrote: [clip] is everything in ggi a void* ? This is a valid point. We do that void * stuff on pupose to make sure users don't try to dereference stuff they shouldn't (bypassing the encapsulation rule and the access layers). However in cases like

Re: KGI-0.9 stuff

2000-01-16 Thread Steffen Seeger
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:32:12PM -0800, Jon M. Taylor wrote: I will be working on a jmt3 release this weekend, so if anyone out there has outstanding patches and wants them merged into jmt3, get them to my by midnight PST. Jos, I have your latest ViRGE patches which you posted to

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Andreas Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about if we #ifdef around that code. Windows will be the only OS which can use an environment variable. The others would still be hard coded. Could be done, but I don't really like special solutions ... There has been a giiGetConfDir()

Re: Again KGI-ViRGE update

2000-01-16 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Jos Hulzink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please find attached a new update for the ViRGE driver. It does not much, in fact it tries to detect memory size and enables interrupts. but this was a merely a test to see if communication with the chip works. Now I can really start to work on the

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread John Fortin
Marcus Sundberg wrote: Andreas Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about if we #ifdef around that code. Windows will be the only OS which can use an environment variable. The others would still be hard coded. Could be done, but I don't really like special solutions ...

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:27:20PM -0500, John Fortin wrote: The idea I had was that the location of the config dir should be stored in the Registry and retrieved from there. The environment variable is not good, as in NT you actually have some security wrt file permissions. I don't know

Re: ggiplay

2000-01-16 Thread Peter Bortas
teunis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Q: Got a driver/protocol/divisioning chart? Some kinda explanation to why things are laid out the way they are and maybe what parts do what? I keep thinking of doing something akin to Windows Media system / modular with divisions of modules. (ie: use

Re: Again KGI-ViRGE update

2000-01-16 Thread Christoph Egger
On 16 Jan 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote: Jos Hulzink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please find attached a new update for the ViRGE driver. It does not much, in fact it tries to detect memory size and enables interrupts. but this was a merely a test to see if communication with the chip

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 12:51:40PM -0500, John Fortin wrote: If at all possible, it'd be nice if a user that hasn't got write access to C: or to the system part of the registry can install libggi (possibly by putting a config file in the same folder as libggi or something). If

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread Marcus Sundberg
John Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If at all possible, it'd be nice if a user that hasn't got write access to C: or to the system part of the registry can install libggi (possibly by putting a config file in the same folder as libggi or something). If I go with a registry

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread John Fortin
If at all possible, it'd be nice if a user that hasn't got write access to C: or to the system part of the registry can install libggi (possibly by putting a config file in the same folder as libggi or something). If I go with a registry solution, which seems likely, I doubt I'll

Re: Again KGI-ViRGE update

2000-01-16 Thread Jos Hulzink
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christoph Egger wrote: I agree. I'm subscribed to both lists too, and I don't like it, when I get the same post twice times... A procmail filter prevents that, but the point is clear now. Only wonder why I didn't get complaints when sending KGICON patches... Jos

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread John Fortin
Actually the whole point would be to have the registry entry in the system section so random users can't tamper with it. However, installing LibGGI as a user must also be supported, so I'd suggest we have it in the user section for now. Then if we find a reason to do something more secure we

Re: Overriding GIICONFDIR and GGICONFDIR

2000-01-16 Thread Andreas Beck
Actually the whole point would be to have the registry entry in the system section so random users can't tamper with it. However, installing LibGGI as a user must also be supported, so I'd suggest we have it in the user section for now. Then if we find a reason to do something more secure we