On Wednesday 02 May 2007 20:40, Daniel Stone wrote: > > For the use case which is being described here - namely always full > > screen applications which need exclusive access to the display at a > > lower resolution Why not do something like switch to another VT and do > > it directly on the framebuffer ? and then wrap this with something > > that makes sure you can always safely return to/from X - maybe > > something managed through systemUI or some such. This is a different > > approach but could prove simpler in the long run though I havn't > > thought long and hard about it so there could be some obvious > > downsides - More a random idea :) > > Egh, my eyes! Dealing with input in particular could be a pain.
This is what works for MPlayer on Nokia 770. It creates x11 window just to reserve some screen space and prevent other applications from using it. After that, it renders data directly to framebuffer and uses x11 for input. It is not very clean, but it works. And it works fast. The same trick can be probably done for SDL. Here is a link to the old discussion in the mailing list with the initial idea: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-December/006646.html _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
