nanogui: re:
Subject:
re:
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
10 May 1999 18:31:04 -0000
Message-Id: <01BE9AE1.4101F900.greg@censoft.com>
I completely agree with setting up the frame buffer device. It's a pain in the ass.
I am looking for someone to write an svgalib driver for nanoX, now that it's
easy to add drivers. This will allow nanoX to run on all those millions of Linux
systems that are still running < 2.2 kernels... svgalib also supports mice.
I've got a long list of features too. But nanoX is still **very** primitive. I am
going to be writing a window manager soon, but I have some big API issues
that need to be discussed.
Currently, I am concentrating on getting nanoX so that it can be readily
customized for multiple operating systems, with drivers easily added.
The upper level api work will be next, as that gets into how we'll integrate a window
manager, and what the look-and-feel should be like.
I've been on an extreme coding binge, with no stopping yet planned...
Greg
On Monday, May 10, 1999 11:12 AM, Vidar Hokstad ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
>
> > Fellow NanoX interested parties:
> >
> > I have today finished work on nanoX version 0.3, which includes the following features:
> >
> > o completely seperate driver api and drivers for screen, mouse and keyboard.
> > All drivers are in a drivers/ subdirectory. It's really easy to write a driver set for some
> > strange box, providing you know how the strange box's low-level graphics code should
> > work.
>
> Wow..
>
> I looked at nano-X a few days ago, and almost dismissed it due to the
> problems I had getting the framebuffer device up and running on my
> machine (I've got a S3 Trio card... One of those that _doesn't_ work with
> vesafb, arg.), and the mess in the graphics driver code at that time.
>
> Guess this means will almost certainly use nano-X for our Linux based
> set-top box/ webpad type machine.
>
> I've got a long list of features I'd like, and if nano-X keeps improving
> at this rate we'll be putting at least one full time developer on helping
> out with further development.
>
> And one of the requirements we have, is that we need to port Mozilla to
> whatever graphics library we use - we plan to allocate people to that
> too... :)
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
> Regards,
>
> Vidar Hokstad ####@####.####
> Director of R&D, Screen Media AS
>
>
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