On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Mariano Alvarez Fernandez wrote:
Hi.
I have uploaded a second pre-release of GRX 2.4.4. Download it from:
What is Your plans with linuxfb driver. It's very likely I'll need that to provide real time display of some measurement data (it would be best not to use X11 or svgalib in this case). It seems to be mostly working except of "amnesia" after switching virtual consoles
Perhaps I could try to port virtual console switching code from Allegro-4.0.0 (allegro-4.0.0/src/linux/vtswitch.c), but not immediatelly now, now perhaps not earlier than in begin of next year. This is perhaps most annoying thing for me now.
Absence of 8bpp mode there is currently not critical for me.
Another thing is similar "amnesia" for X11 driver (verified now with 2.4.4p2): if I obscure GRX window, the contents is lost. I would write related code, I would prefer to use gtk+ and gdk, build image in pixmap and blit it to screen as needed (tried to wrote some related custom widgets recently). Maybe it's worth to have such GTK+ driver (maybe it could be useable also for Windows, as there is Windows port of gtk+)
Andris