On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Chris Marshall wrote: > With the spin-off of Sugar development to sugarlabs, > it is nice to see the development continued. > > However, it seems that the OLPC layoffs and refocus > has scuttled the work to complete some OS and system > software support for the XO-1 hardware features. > > For example, I have been waiting for the video scaler > support to allow for adjustable display resolutions on > the XO. Among other things, it would allow programs > that don't understand a 1200x900 but only 6x4" display > to work at a more usable resolution where the graphic > elements and text/fonts are consistent and visible to > the naked eye...
programs that don't allow you to scale ther text/fonts are broken on _many_ systems, not just the XO. many distros let you install a 'large font' set (look at debxo 0.4 vs debxo 0.5 for an example of this, with 0.5 they moved to a large font set) > It would allow for much improved > video performance since you could play back a 320x240 > video on the full screen at considerable CPU savings. except that you would spend those CPU savings doing the scaling up from 320x240 to the higher resolution. > I had thought this capability would be coming with > the Fedora 10 move in 9.1.0. With that release now > scuttled, I'm wondering more generally, are these > pieces being picked up anywhere? I don't see this as a XO specific problem (what am I missing here?) the piece that is still lacking with the other OS options is power management. David Lang > Would it make sense to have an 8.2.2 release involving > the move to Fedora 10 but pretty much the same as > 8.2.1 otherwise? > > --Chris > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
