Re: tested KGI 19991017 snapshot

1999-10-21 Thread Andrew Apted
`dumpkeys' and `loadkeys' to redefine your keymap. Like any good application, the kernel keys are configurable. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XGGI used as xdm

1999-01-02 Thread Andrew Apted
g. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GGI extreme blues : NEED HELP

2000-01-31 Thread Andrew Apted
echnology (and putting X in a separate server that logically sits on top of it), it would be orders of magnitude smaller (and 100% reliable). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file-target

2000-02-02 Thread Andrew Apted
: GGI_LITTLE_ENDIAN GGI_BIG_ENDIAN One of those will be defined. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file-target

2000-02-02 Thread Andrew Apted
this in: file_vis = ggiOpen("display-file:/tmp/foo.ppm", NULL); ggiSetMode(file_vis ...); ggiCrossBlit(file_vis - normal_vis); ggiGetc(normal_vis); Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file-target

2000-02-03 Thread Andrew Apted
and FILE_BMP defines -- are they just temporary ? Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file-target

2000-02-05 Thread Andrew Apted
devices files in /dev). I can do this: demos/flying-ggis -m 1024x760x16 -t file:/dev/fb0 (I boot with vesafb into 1024x768x16 mode). It works. It's ultra silly too. No input. Needed SAK to kill :- Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: targets and ?sources?

2000-02-07 Thread Andrew Apted
g-interchange Using LibGFFD, this new picture library could detect the filetype, and then look it up in the gpf.conf file to find which DLL to load to handle the image. Any interest in this approach ? Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how move the console in GGI?

2000-02-07 Thread Andrew Apted
o be found on the GGI FTP site though. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Failed to set mode

2000-02-16 Thread Andrew Apted
:5:0 Try booting with the following kernel cmdline option: video=vesa:ypan It enables vertical pan support in the VESAfb driver, which LibGGI can use for multiple frames. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: evstack, Results of multi-headed quake test, and input fun

2000-02-17 Thread Andrew Apted
presume), but you'll want it bigger. Joseph, any console command for setting FOV ? Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFI (exists)

2000-02-19 Thread Andrew Apted
? Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multi-head HOWTO

2000-02-20 Thread Andrew Apted
bbing" the mouse is a very windowing-system-ish concept). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screen hosings...

2000-02-22 Thread Andrew Apted
fbcon to bugger off). But then you run fbset or the fbdev target, and it the kernel tries to program the hardware (using wrong data, since the X server has changed everything). Boom. Video card hosed, and neither the kernel nor the X server have enough info to fix it... Cheers, __ \/ Andrew

Re: targets and ?sources?

2000-02-23 Thread Andrew Apted
structure (basicly just width, height, format and a pointer to the data). It should also be able to convert images between different formats. libmagick ? It's free software, can be used without X, and supports a sheet-load of image formats. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Andrew Apted
ied though by having a "current painted set" (not unlike libggi's current write frame). Maybe use integer handles for them (e.g. you could allocate or delete a whole range at once), not sure if its better than pointers though. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ggiCheckSimpleMode bug?

2000-03-21 Thread Andrew Apted
nd restore the mode if it succeeds. That is not a nice solution, but IMO it is better than the current situation where the fbdev target does not report correct info via ggiCheckMode. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fbdev target suggestion

2000-03-28 Thread Andrew Apted
), with very unsatisfactory results. This should also prevent problems when someone tries to run the fbdev target from a normal X server (I'm pretty sure they set KD_GRAPHICS mode too). Comments ? Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving KGI to Sourceforge

2000-03-29 Thread Andrew Apted
working on commercial OSes (like a certain mysterious one). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch] memory-target typo fix

2000-03-29 Thread Andrew Apted
Christoph Egger writes: I just found an typo error in the memory-target. The fix is attached. Anyone here to commit it, please? Both fixes (memory tele) look OK to me, and have been committed. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow mouse screen refreshment with tile

2000-04-11 Thread Andrew Apted
as changed something or not. The only solution is to make a smarter X server. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow mouse screen refreshment with tile

2000-04-12 Thread Andrew Apted
for doing swapping stuff). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MPEG in GGI?

2000-04-19 Thread Andrew Apted
chanism to "join" input queues. Or poll. Or broaden the concept of "focus" to allow multiple actual windows. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some questions on LibXMI

2000-04-22 Thread Andrew Apted
. Or a simple game where each object is a painted set. Maybe even use them for font glyphs (might be too much overhead for that). Not exactly compelling reasons for multiple painted sets per ggi_visual_t, but it is a nice concept. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XGGI on PPC

2000-04-27 Thread Andrew Apted
be a separate problem). A workaround to try (until this gets fixed) is to use XGGI on the display-tile target, as this will make XGGI draw in memory and the tile target will blit to the screen (make sure no memsets in the tile target though :-). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ggiPuts - error

2000-04-29 Thread Andrew Apted
Christoph Egger writes: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Andrew Apted wrote: The number of characters actually drawn. Huh? The man-pages of ggiPuts says, it returns 0 if OK, otherwise an error occured. So I want to know, which kind of error means 29 and 30. If you are sure, you're right

Re: GGI support for non standard FB devices

2000-05-16 Thread Andrew Apted
mapping routines. You'll get better performance by implementing the other drawing routines too (drawhline, puthline etc), but that can come later. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [greagl1@umbc.edu: public domain has no copyright]

2000-05-30 Thread Andrew Apted
Andreas Beck writes: .../libgic/programs/demos/confmgrdemo.c (c) Andrew Apted Could the respective copyright holders please fix this ? Done. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: XMI updates + development issues

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Apted
iated. Tested it here, works nicely, and no segfaults. Had a problem compiling though, the demos check for a HAVE_RANDOM define, but as far as I can tell there is no check for this in configure.in (thus doesn't appear in config.h). This caused a problem because `random' gets #defined to `rand', but

Re: RFC: XMI updates + development issues

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Apted
(but doesn't have to, if vis-visible.y == vis-virt.y) be much faster. I think Marcus's point is: XMI cannot assume that the application won't be panning around the virtual area. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: XMI updates + development issues

2000-06-12 Thread Andrew Apted
e instead of: miRectangle rect; rect.x = x; rect.y = y; rect.width = w; rect.height = h; miFillRectangles(vis, paintedSet, pGC, 1, rect); allow this: miFillRectangle(vis, paintedSet, pGC, x, y, w, h); Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flickering fbdev

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Apted
the following kernel command line option (in LILO or whatever) : video=vesa:ypan You can check that it works by running the libggi `pageflip' demo. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can I use kgicon to do 800x600 on a laptop?

2000-06-24 Thread Andrew Apted
than the default fbcon)? Only if there is a working kgicon driver for your chipset, but as far as I know we don't have any drivers for Trident cards. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multihead XGGI

2000-07-10 Thread Andrew Apted
ices, give them group write access, and put yourself in the video group (with adduser). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kgicon - Many questions, any answers ?

2000-07-10 Thread Andrew Apted
Martin Schulze writes: Hmm ... still I don't get it - "./inputdump --input linux-mouse,ps2,/dev/mouse" inputdump --input 'linux-mouse:ps2,/dev/mouse' ^ ^ Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: colors vs. pixels

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Apted
format's bitmasks will be ignored by LibGGI and probably the hardware too. There is an alpha mask in the ggi_pixelformat but AFAIK it never does anything (in LibGGI or in hardware). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screen update issues with xggi, monitest, and other apps.

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Apted
is that -novt causes the second framebuffer to be used without having _any_ consoles on it (and if you normally add consoles onto fb1, you should remove them before trying this). Hope that helps. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XGGI inputs syntax, login magagers.

2000-08-09 Thread Andrew Apted
). I've found a way around this, by writing a bunch of scripts, but having the option in XGGI would be substantially cleaner. Yep, IMHO it would be a worthwhile addition to XGGI. Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extreme amounts of wierditude (long)

2000-08-12 Thread Andrew Apted
one on the stack. A third source of weirdness is changing a structure in a header file but not recompiling the source files that use it (it sounds obvious, but I've been bitten by that a couple of times, looking for a "bug" that wasn't there). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HDL4KGI

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew Apted
rd doesn't directly support -- that's what the real driver is for). Food for thought at least :-). Cheers, __ \/ Andrew Apted [EMAIL PROTECTED] //--- // interface IMda : IUnknown // // GUID: 374581C