The fbdev backend is a welcome sight here and I've been trying it out on a
Nokia N900; in the minimal testing I've done so far (some input issues on the
touchpad and keyboard mean I couldn't test too much interactive usage) it works
well, so thanks.
However one issue I've found is that no input
Nerdopolis writes:
> I see.
> The only concern is that can the vesafb fbdev device resolution be changed in
> runtime if its too small?
> Otherwise users are going to have to manually set the framebuffer size by
> correcting the correct vga= argument with grub if they get the wrong size.
>
...
David Herrmann writes:
> I don't think this is a good idea. We have a vesafb in the kernel so
> please use this instead of accessing graphic-cards via VESA from
> user-space.
> I don't see any reason why we should copy vesafb-code into weston.
>
> vesafb provides a fbdev device which then can be
Hi
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Bengt Richter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can this fb compositor be run as non-root (but member of video group for
> access to /dev/fb?) ?
Yes.
> I run X as non-root user via a startx script. Could one hope for an
> analogous startw script that
> puts one in a shell
Hi
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM, nerdopolis
wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
>
> I tried experimenting with the latest fbdev-backend on my Live CD on an old
> Intel laptop and it seems to work pretty good.
>
>
>
> However I did run into a few problems with VirtualBox which isn't really the
> fault of fbdev-ba
Hi.
I tried experimenting with the latest fbdev-backend on my Live CD on an old
Intel laptop and it seems to work pretty good.
However I did run into a few problems with VirtualBox which isn't really the
fault of fbdev-backend, but problems that prevented it from working.
I tried to use Weston
