Hi, Currently the console client only support (minimally) VGA. It it not really hard to add some more VGA support and even basic SVGA support.
For better VGA support I want to add some features. First I'd like to add modeline support. This is how SVGATextMode, Xfree, svgalib, etc. setup a videomode. This is really easy to do, actually I already have most code to configure the hardware. As usual there are some problems I can think of, to understand the problem I will show some lines from a SVGATextMode configuration file first: "80x25x9" 28.3 640 680 776 800 400 412 414 449 font 9x16 "80x28x9" 28.3 640 680 776 800 392 412 414 449 font 9x14 There two lines are copied from TextConfig. The lines begins with a dimension name, "80x25x9" on the first line for example. This name is only for the user, the rest of the line are hardware parameters to set up this mode. As you might have noticed the parameters for the hardware are almost identical, except for the 400 and 449 and the font on the first line everything is the same. What I'm trying to make clear here is that many dimensions are set simply by using another font. This is how it works on all operating systems. (Ofcourse there are other things required to change the dimensions of the screen, but this one gives me problems) The problem I have is that if the console should work perfectly it should automatically pick the right font. If we let the user pick the font the dimensions might turn out to be very unlogical. So the best thing would be making it possible for the vga console to pick the fonts. What is the best way to do this? Assuming the font has the same names as used in this file? 9x16 would be "/lib/hud/fonts/9x16.bdf" and after loading the font we should also check if there are bold, italic and bold+italic fonts? That makes the most sense to me. We can also leave it as it is, but that will force the user to think about how to change dimensions. I think that is not a thing most users care to learn about. One disadvantage of the approach is that some fonts have more unicode characters than other fonts. Selecting another font by switching dimensions might confuse the user a bit. But IMO this is not as bad as teaching _all_ users how to setup the code. as usual I'm open for suggestions. :) Another issue is the screen blanking screensaver. IMO this shouldn't be separate driver/plugin, but it should be a part of the vga driver. I want this because they both access the same hardware. The vga driver needs a lock for hardware access because of this. Is there something else I forgot or something that isn't clear? Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
