Re: Multifont: testing & feedback (HD spinning)

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Haerr
: OK, now I think I understand what you're saying. The unified cache would : still be static though, right? Instead of five 10kb (or 45kb or : whatever) buffers we'd have a single (probably larger, somewhere around : 50kb?) buffer used for all fonts, with everything going through the font : cache &

Re: Multifont: testing & feedback (HD spinning)

2006-02-27 Thread bk
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 14:13 -0700, Greg Haerr wrote: > What I'm saying is that the font buffers could be shared > between all characters of all fonts. By keeping track of the > font number as well as the character, all displayed characters > would be cached from the same area, subject to LRU load

Re: Multifont: testing & feedback (HD spinning)

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Haerr
: Wouldn't this mean that the font would have to be reloaded from disk : every time the user switched from one screen to another? That means at : least a 1-2 second delay (much more if the disk is spun down) every time : the displayed font changes. What I'm saying is that the font buffers could be

Re: proper directory sorting

2006-02-27 Thread Manuel Dejonghe
On 2/27/06, Bluechip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is currently a discussion on the > possibility of using the ID3v2 Tag Sort Order to > define the order tracks are sorted - if it is > approved I think it would serve as a _simpler_ > solution to the same end. What with sorting directories tha

Re: Multifont: testing & feedback (HD spinning)

2006-02-27 Thread bk
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 11:33 -0700, Greg Haerr wrote: > It sounds like the font buffer should be shared between > fonts, so that each "loaded" font doesn't use an entirely > new buffer. Wouldn't this mean that the font would have to be reloaded from disk every time the user switched from one screen

Re: Formatting - relaxed?

2006-02-27 Thread gl
: concerned about // style comments? They're much : quicker to type, and also allow the use of /* */ to quickly disable blocks : of code. Quicker to type should never be a programmer's priority, IMO. Far more important is maintaining a consistent style. I personally see no impact of mixing /

Re: Formatting - relaxed?

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Haerr
: concerned about // style comments? They're much : quicker to type, and also allow the use of /* */ to quickly disable blocks : of code. Quicker to type should never be a programmer's priority, IMO. Far more important is maintaining a consistent style. Regards, Greg

Re: SDL installation on Linux?

2006-02-27 Thread bk
You'll also need xorg-x11-devel packages (assuming you're using Fedora/RH/SuSE or derivatives thereof). That's why your SDL didn't include X11 support, you didn't need to download the entire XOrg source and compile yourself, all you need is the *-devel package. Also keep in mind that the sim doesn

Re: Multifont: testing & feedback (HD spinning)

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Haerr
: If we increase each font buffer to 45kb we can ensure that only the : biggest fonts go through the cache (about 74% of fonts then are small : enough to be loaded entirely). Obviously that increases overhead quite a : bit (from ~50kb to ~225kb). It sounds like the font buffer should be shared bet

Re: SDL installation on Linux?

2006-02-27 Thread Tristan McCann
For Fedora core 3, that would be yum install SDL-devel -Tristan On 2/27/06, Dan Everton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How you install the packages that the SDL simulator requires to run will > vary between different Linux distributions. For Debian and Ubuntu for > example, you would type something

Re: SDL installation on Linux?

2006-02-27 Thread Dan Everton
How you install the packages that the SDL simulator requires to run will vary between different Linux distributions. For Debian and Ubuntu for example, you would type something like sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev and for Fedora it might be (untested) yum install libsdl1.2-dev Hav

SDL installation on Linux?

2006-02-27 Thread jw
How to? Is SDL some package that is installed by default on most Linux distributions or something? Cause nowhere in the twiki is it mentioned where to get it & how to install it (if you must do more than a configure/make/make install) on the source. I download sdl-1.2.9 from libsdl.org, configure,

Re: proper directory sorting

2006-02-27 Thread Bluechip
There is currently a discussion on the possibility of using the ID3v2 Tag Sort Order to define the order tracks are sorted - if it is approved I think it would serve as a _simpler_ solution to the same end. Of course the down-side is that it becomes the users' responsibility to go back and r

proper directory sorting

2006-02-27 Thread Frederic Devernay
Hi, Are there any plans to implement proper directory sorting in rockbox? for some reason, I expect "Sébastien Schuller" to be placed before "Syd Barrett", not after as it is now. Of course, full unicode sorting (i.e. implementing full strcoll()) is almost impossible, but in the -00FF ran

Distributed CVS Builds

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel Stenberg
Hi friends Thanks to excellent scriptting work done by Tomas Salfischberger and additional server powers kindly donated by jaebird, lostlogic and linuxstb, we're now finally introducing the Rockbox Distributed CVS Builds Our main build server has struggled harder and harder to keep up with

Re: F#2554 comment by crissov: Sort Artists alpha without leading article

2006-02-27 Thread Bluechip
I believe you will find that ID3-TagIt (.de) supports these fields. I am aware I pressed reply, against the instructions in block caps, it was the easiest way to quote the original note. If this causes some weird threading issue that upsets the purists, please say something that it may not h

Re: Compiling IPod with 64MB memory

2006-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I followed your advice (and I already had: I'd done a make clean, followed by make and make zip, and had copied that over to the ipod before I made my initial email, but just to be sure, I created a new build directory and compiled anew.) The codecs on the iPod are the same as the codecs from

Re: Compiling IPod with 64MB memory

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when I compile the iPod video target with64MB memory, I get a usable > firmware that uses all 64MB of memory, but none of the codecs or plugins > work. Are you definitely using codecs and plugins compiled for your new 64MB Rockbox? Codecs and plugins are compiled and li

Compiling IPod with 64MB memory

2006-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when I compile the iPod video target with64MB memory, I get a usable firmware that uses all 64MB of memory, but none of the codecs or plugins work. To compile to 64MB, I changed line 757 of tools/configure from memory=32 # 30GB models have 32MB, 60GB have 64MB to memory=64 # 30GB models have 32