Hi peeps. I hope you guys don't mind the occasional newbie question :)
I have a vaguely interesting 'problem' regarding the siliconmotion driver (the system is running Xubuntu 9.10 at the moment) and before I start hacking around with the source code I thought I might ask if there is someone more involved with this module that could possibly give me some pointers or help me avoid some pitfalls. What I would like to do is compile a 'portrait' video driver. Essentially, I think I just want to swap the x and y values for each pixel, thus creating an output for a display in portrait mode. The reason I don't want to use the framebuffer for this is that the old tablet pc (Acer c100) I want to use it on is unusably slow when using the FB - the 800MHz processor jus' can't take it cap'n. Ideally I would like to be able to select from the normal or the rotated driver (doing this at boot time is fine) so I can use the computer in either mode (baby steps...) I figure that there is a bit more to it than just doing a global "replace data_x with data_y and change screen resolutions to 600x800", but is there any show stopper that would prevent a plan like this working? I guess I would lose the hardware video decoding, but aside from that this idea could work, right? Cheers, Frith. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
