Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Diego Roversi
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hello, just my 2c tips: > The output half is similar. The only driver initially will be a standard > VGA driver (Super VGA might be an option for later). I have found some > documentation on VGA cards (FreeVGA Project), and w

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Roland McGrath
> Ok, I understand if that is the current goal, but I think the Right > Thing should (1) behave in a sane way if the X server is kill -9:ed > (i.e. cleanup bound to a no-senders notification somewhere), and (2) > support arbitrary frame buffer applications in a simple and robust > way. I think X

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Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Niels Möller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have the console server and X as the only players, the > mentioned protocol ensures that X can safely grab control over the > graphic card and the keyboard (the console server might in fact act > as an repeater for the keyboard input on /dev/k

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Niklas Höglund
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:53:24PM +, Adam Olsen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > [...] The interesting way is to prescan as much > > characters as available, and, taking all the characters into account that > > are visible on the screen at that

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Niels Möller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Esp with the input below, I feel much better about Unicode now (although > I would not like to support the whole lot of it right from the > start, esp the compose characters A + ["] = Ä and stuff like that). Yes, unicode is a lot more complex than o

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Roland McGrath
> The console seems to be the natural place where you configure the system > wide default encoding. I am not sure how an alternative would look like. > Where would the actual conversion took place if we were to use UTF-8 > unconditionally? There would be no conversion on input in any part of the

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:14:05PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > THAT makes me thinking! I am running out of time, but I just had this hell > of an idea: If we would use UTF-8 throughout, we would end up with the vga > backend receiving UTF-8 characters. Now it can do one of two things: The

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, thanks for your reply, it is very useful. I am on the jump between two conferences, so I can not do the research right now, but some comments I can make right now. On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 04:36:31AM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > > * A kernel driver to get the keyboard events from. To redu

Re: console plans

2002-02-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:56:45AM +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The output half is similar. The only driver initially will be a standard > > VGA driver (Super VGA might be an option for later). I have found some > > documentation on VGA cards (Fre

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Re: boot scripts

2002-02-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Your idea is great, and I also want such a feature. But the current implementation of GRUB is too ugly to add it (e.g. no real memory management). Probably you will have to wait for next generation of GRUB which is not even started yet. I'm sorry that the power of GRUB is still poor. :( Okuji ===