Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:17:11 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: 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?
Yeap. That was one of the goals. Plus a bunch others.
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds >
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