Hello,
> > Interrupt driven ? You mean something like a timer updating the mouse more
> > frequently than the rest ?
> > This is something terribly hard and ugly under Unix. The whole SYNC mode
> > emulation stuff is ugly for the same reason.
>
> It may be enough. Julien really needs more a (working) hack for visual
> appeal than a technically sound solution. He aims a production environment
> and, apparently, that mouse lazyness is the only thing that his customers
> dislike. That's a perceptual problem but well...
I am much likely to programm low level stuff, but I can propose that:
-XGGI creating another (thread|process) wakening each X ms to read the
current postion of the pointer and call some ioctl of the frame buffer
that would take care only of the motion (there would be no changing of
the shape possible until the X server decide so)?
That's a purely theorical point of view, I have no great experience of X
programming, but I have some in C programming and the sources are there
!)
>
> Adding a few ggiFlushRegion() to XGGI (in the pointer management functions)
> should not be so difficult. (Julien did you use a binary distrib. of
> XGGI or did you recompile it?)
I have the full source of XGGI 1.6.1,
By the way, When I begun the developpement for my project (june), the
only distrib supporting framebuffers in a way that fitted me was the
mandrake ( it corrected some bugs of RH concerning french configuration
too, so .... ). I give you the advice not to use it for developpement,
cause the libs are stripped (optimization), and the compiler is not
accepting to compile some c++ programms (autoconf yield :
"
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot create executables.
").
I did not noticed at first, because you don't have the use of a debugger
when you are programming a device driver. And, I need not to recompile
programms with C++ sources. I noticed some threads in the news about
programming on this subject. On the other hand, as a user it is
suitable.
I am gonna change to debian soon (now that kernel 2.2. is supported).
> BTW: Still looking for some funny photographs. Would a nice 'nude baby'
> picture be adequate? [I guess wedding pictures are not suitable - that's
> the only kind of picture that floats around me for the time being...;-)]
Sounds good 2 me.
Julien Tayon
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