On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:54:19 +0100 Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Thu 2010-01-28 00:07:51, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:58:43 +0100 Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > We need vt switch when display is controlled by userland app directly > > > accessing hw. It may or may not be X (svgalib anyone?, > > > gtk-on-framebuffer? qtopia?). > > > > anything-on-framebuffer should not be different from plain framebuffer > > console, or am I missing something? > > It is. At least svgalib accesses hw directly. It probably can run even > on framebuffer. If it accesses hw directly, it's not really "anything-on-framebuffer" anymore, is it? The framebuffer device is there to abstract the hardware. > Well, for now the "shadow buffer" contains only text, not graphics > images. So you'd need to enlarge it a lot. Doable but more than one liner. Yes, noticed this today. I was using bootsplash-patched kernels, which are obviously different in this aspect, so that shifted my view on reality ;) -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
