Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:31, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > > I mean, should the translator just be something like a "pipe" to > > the video memory or should it already provide drawing functions? Should > > it allow access from every application? > > I don't think it should be a pipe. It should make

Re: Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-17 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 09:42, Niels Möller wrote: > > The idea seems to be to use memory mapping and a translator so > > applications can just write to this translator to access the video > > memory. The kernel would than directly talk to the > > hardware, for example through a VESA driver. Is that

Kernel video driver (was: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static)

2002-06-16 Thread Daniel Borgmann
Hi Marcus, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 6:14:30 PM, you wrote: >> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s2 >> -T typed ${root} MB> Shouldn't this be "root=device:hd0s@" because of the "typed"? This works, great! Hm, just looked at the installation guide and it also says device:hd0sx... Don't know

Re: Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static

2002-06-15 Thread Daniel Borgmann
Hello, On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 11:30, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > --- snip --- > > title GNU/Hurd > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s2 > > module /hurd/ext2fs.static > > --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} > > --host-priv-port=${hos

Boot problem @ /hurd/ext2fs.static

2002-06-15 Thread Daniel Borgmann
Hello list! Since yesterday I have the Hurd running and so far I like it (very interesting to start learning Hurd-hacking). There is just one glitch so and I thought it might not hurd.. err... hurt to ask you about it. When I try to boot using the module statements from the installation instructi