nanogui: Nano-X-0.5pre3
Subject:
RE: Nano-X-0.5pre3
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
21 May 1999 20:38:39 -0000
Message-Id: <01BEA397.6803A0D0.greg@censoft.com>
On Friday, May 21, 1999 2:12 PM, Alex Holden ####@####.#### wrote:
: On Fri, 21 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
: > Cool. Look at the original mini-x-new mousedrv.c code, I've been getting
: > ready to write a low-level driver that just reads from the serial port
: > only, and uses that code. That code will decode MS and PC mice bits,
: > and requires no other software...
:
: What I've been working on is something like a simpler version of the GGI
: code.
Vidar sent me his working ggi drivers for nanoX v0.4. Do you have them?
I don't have GGI installed but it seems like a very cool system.
The original mini-X code wasn't very advanced, the gpm code is very
: bloated and crufty, and boml is based on gpm (it is trimmed down and
: tidied up a bit, but the cruftiness of the original GPM shows through,
: IMO). The GGI code, BTW, supports all the mice of GPM but in a cleaner
: way, I'm just trying to cut it down in size a bit.
I like your GPM driver alot. I was thinking of writing a lower-level
mouse driver just for systems that don't have GPM, and run on bare hardware...
The cool thing about the gpm driver is that it parses a single "instruction"
stream that's always the same. Another low-level driver, mousedev.c, basically
would do nearly the same with two more "instruction" sets, and read /dev/ttyS1
rather than /dev/gpmdata...
Greg
