Doesn't the 'dummy' video driver that's already in XFree86 do most of that anyway ?
Alan. On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:04:00PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Hey, > I've done some work on porting the vfb device to new device driver > interface. See: > > http://www.skynet.ie/~mark/pub/vfb-driver.tgz > > Its mostly there ... GNOME seems to run fine on it, for example. There > are a few things that remain to be done, though: > > 1) Implement support for headless (i.e. no monitor) devices in the > xfree86/common layer. > > 2) Port over the dummy input device handling from hw/vfb. > > 3) Add msync() and gethostname() support to os-support. > > > (2) and (3) are fairly trivial, I'll get to them soonish, but I've > taken a look at doing (1) and started to feel like I was getting well > out my depth. If anyone has any advice, or indeed, would like to do that > hacking it'd be much appreciated. > > Also, I'm unsure of the policy for getting unfinished stuff in XFree86. > Can this be committed and added to DevelDrivers or should I wait until > the above items are finished before trying to get it committed ? > > Thanks, > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
