nanogui: Thread: Some q's

A few q's:-

1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can Linux 
drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?

2. I was thinking of writing a support pakage for the herc card (opening, 
closing, lines, etc) that works on 3 platforms (Linux, ELks, MSDOS). The 
main reason for doing this is to get some practace at coding in C, and i 
want to use my herc card more. I started off and have got a lot done. One 
thing though, I realised that I dont have any routiens to use ports or write 
to memory.

Do I have to make these by hand?
Is there a header file I can include to get these functions?
Can I just use the "/src/drives/utils.c" out of the microwin project? greg?

anyway, sorry if this question is too easy to answer, I am new to linux 
programing (and programming in general)

tom

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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can Linux 
> drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?

http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/

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Subject: Some q's


> A few q's:-
>
> 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can Linux
> drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?
>

Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on my
Tandy HD 1000
laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD.  Is anyone working on this, or
does anyone have any knowledge about it?
William Price
####@####.####

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, William Price wrote:

> > A few q's:-
> >
> > 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can Linux
> > drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?
> >
> 
> Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on my
> Tandy HD 1000
> laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD.  Is anyone working on this, or
> does anyone have any knowledge about it?

		At least until I know, lcd screens on laptops
	behave almost the same as a regular vga monitor and
	card on a desktop computer, if your machine is vga
	compatible, you just would fire up ELKS with vga16
	fbcon, if it does have it, of course. Regular text
	console and svgalib would do the same. But I am not
	to date with ELKS progress so I'm not very sure about
	that.

Juan Antonio Morillas Cerezo ####@####.#### writes:

> > Yes,I have questions about this as well. I wish to someday run ELKS on my
> > Tandy HD 1000
> > laptop (8086 based) and its screen is LCD.  Is anyone working on this, or
> > does anyone have any knowledge about it?
> 
> 		At least until I know, lcd screens on laptops
> 	behave almost the same as a regular vga monitor and
> 	card on a desktop computer, if your machine is vga
> 	compatible, you just would fire up ELKS with vga16
> 	fbcon, if it does have it, of course. Regular text
> 	console and svgalib would do the same. But I am not
> 	to date with ELKS progress so I'm not very sure about
> 	that.

I doubt whether an 8086 machine would be VGA-compatible.  It's
more likely MDA or CGA compatible.

>From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
>>On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> > 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can 
>Linux
> > drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?
>
>http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
>

This is just what I wanted, thanks, I should have been more spicific.

tom

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Thomas Stewart wrote:

> >From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
> >>On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> > > 1. A while back I remember someone talking about driving LCD's, Can
> >Linux
> > > drive LCD's well? Where can I get some info on this?
> >
> >http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/
> >
>
> This is just what I wanted, thanks, I should have been more spicific.
>
> tom

or
http://www.nukem.freeserve.co.uk/contents/electronics/vt52/index.html

:)

G