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SubjectRe: Introducing the LCD-Linux project
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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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