Creating serial output without losing keyboard control

2005-08-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I'm not sure whether or not this list is the appropriate place for broaching this subject or not, but it was the most logical choice I could find. I am blind and using grub in debian; I also have used grub in fedora and gentoo. I have predominantly used grub legacy but am starting to atte

Re: [PATCH] Framebuffer ieee1275 support & test commands

2005-08-25 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Hollis Blanchard wrote: > - you have lots of commented-out code present Patch lines : 68 : waiting for me to fix the grub_ieee1275_fb_addr stuff. 597..600 & 949..961 : I don't know how widely these functions are implemented in framebuffers, so I disabled them. 921 & 927 : Forgot those. > - what i

Re: [PATCH] Framebuffer ieee1275 support & test commands

2005-08-25 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote: Here is my patch to add support for framebuffer on IEEE1275 machines, a fractal drawing test program, and a mouse test program. No time for real review at the moment, but: - you spelled "Manldebrot" wrong in the first comment - you have lot

[PATCH] Framebuffer ieee1275 support & test commands

2005-08-25 Thread Vincent Pelletier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is my patch to add support for framebuffer on IEEE1275 machines, a fractal drawing test program, and a mouse test program. Framebuffer support includes : -setting the palette colours -drawing a rectangle filled with a colour -drawing a rectang

Re: [BUG] Sparc64 rescue mode

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the output I get with ls on my U10 : > > grub rescue> ls > (disk) (disk3) (disk2) Can't read disk label. > Can't open disk label package > (disk1) (disk0) (ide) (floppy) Can't read disk label. > Can't open disk label package > (disk) [...] >

Mouse support

2005-08-25 Thread Vincent Pelletier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I added basic mouse support for ieee1275. It's really, really basic : - -Only works with serial mice - -Only works with Microsoft 2 buttons protocol (might work for 3 buttons without wheel) - -One has to set the serial speed from OpenFirmware command l

[BUG] Sparc64 rescue mode

2005-08-25 Thread Vincent Pelletier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is the output I get with ls on my U10 : grub rescue> ls (disk) (disk3) (disk2) Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package (disk1) (disk0) (ide) (floppy) Can't read disk label. Can't open disk label package (disk) [...] I see 3 bugs : -