Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:11:24 +0200 | Subject | Re: Introducing the LCD-Linux project | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 16:43, Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> wrote: > Mattia Jona-Lasinio <mattia.jona <at> gmail.com> writes: >> Moreover I wanted something that COULD be used as a console but not >> necessarily, that is >> something that could run happily in the presence of a normal monitor >> as well. It seems to me, but I may be >> wrong, that through the standard console system only the current >> visible console is actually updated >> while other consoles are just "software" updated. An external LCD >> would therefore be updated >> only when you "switch" to it, so it would not be possible to use it to >> display diagnostics. > > True, that's a general problem one has when multiple framebuffers exist. > Therefore I'd be very happy if someone could come up with a general solution.
Fixing that was (one of the) goal of the linux-console project. James?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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