Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-07 Thread Larry
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:58:09PM -0700, Jon M. Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: > > [snip] > > > I downloaded the file and tried to do the patch but am having no luck. > > [snip] > > That patch is extremely old. vesafb support has been included in > the stock Linux ker

Re: patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-07 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Larry wrote: [snip] > I downloaded the file and tried to do the patch but am having no luck. [snip] That patch is extremely old. vesafb support has been included in the stock Linux kernel sources for a long time now. Go get yourself the newest 2.2.x kernel and ins

patches for Vesa 1.2 ???

2000-09-07 Thread Larry
Since I have been having no luck with getting the Framebuffer option to work on my system, I have come to the conclusion that I have a VESA 1.2 BIOS (I do have a S3Virge). So I did some searching and found this internet site with the following info. --

new(?) extension

2000-09-07 Thread soyt
Hi. Just to inform you all that I'm working on a libart extension for ggi. I expect to get a functionnal version pretty soon. I hope I'm not duplicating somebody else's effort... Let me know if it is the case.

Re: GGI target-system

2000-09-07 Thread Brian S. Julin
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Andreas Beck wrote: > > Is a complete _detailed_ documentation available about _how_ the GGI > > target-system works and is handled in the code? > > Umm - that's a bit much, as this is a "coders only" question, so I'll keep > to showing a quick rundown. If you want to code, yo

Re: GGI target-system

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Beck
> Yes, TNX. I have a further question: > How are threads handled in the code? ??? They aren't. LibGGI does support threads in the sense, that it doesn't break, if you use it, but other than for stuff like the mansync helper, it doesn't use them on its own. You have to serialize access to a visu

Re: GGI target-system

2000-09-07 Thread Christoph Egger
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Andreas Beck wrote: > > Is a complete _detailed_ documentation available about _how_ the GGI > > target-system works and is handled in the code? > [very good description] > Hope that answers a bit. Yes, TNX. I have a further question: How are threads handled in the code?

Re: GGI target-system

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Beck
> Is a complete _detailed_ documentation available about _how_ the GGI > target-system works and is handled in the code? Umm - that's a bit much, as this is a "coders only" question, so I'll keep to showing a quick rundown. If you want to code, you will start at some similar target anyway, if not