On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jim Gettys wrote: (sorry for catching up sooo late with this thread...)
> I've had discussions with Alan Cox about providing the kernel interfaces > to make handling vertical retrace synchronization feasible (on Linux, anyway). > > It is a matter of finding someone with a month or two's kernel hacking > time to get his done for Linux. Keith, Alan and I can kibitz on the > design work for those interfaces. > > Not only do you want vertical retrace, you also need to expose the audio > clocks from audio boards. > how do you propose getting the audio clocks from audio boards? well, obviously it's a secondary priority to learn about the audio bits, and more important to bring the accessibility under the same hood for an X application... e.g. a DVD player is a good example of an app that really needs to time its actions according to the video clock and know where the audio is playing as well... do you know of any volunteers by now? or do we (me & my workmate) have to report ourselves as volunteers? :-) the vertical retrace isn't on the top of our priorities, right now there's a whole lot other stuff to work on :( topi _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
