porting XDirectFB to Xorg 7.1

Ville Syrjälä syrjala at sci.fi
Tue Sep 12 12:44:27 PDT 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:58:09PM +0100, Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> I don't know how relevant it is but theres generic code for a rootless
> x server, eg running on a different windowing environment, in
> /miext/rootless.

XDirectFB has a private copy of that code. I think both the XDirectFB 
and the miext/rootless code came from XDarwin. I'm not really sure how 
much the XDirectFB rootless code was customized.

> On 9/12/06, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala at sci.fi> wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:56:37AM +0800, ye janboe wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> I am porting XDirectFB to Xorg 7.1.
> >> Are there anyone doing this?
> >
> >I started (with Xorg 7.0) by getting XDirectFB to build against
> >xorg-server 1.0.2. Unfrtunately getting it to build wasn't enough
> >to make it work. Things go bad somewhere in the fb code when starting
> >gnome, twm+xterm almost worked but the colors were all wrong. I'd really
> >appreciate if you (or someone else) could finish porting it :) How far
> >along are you? I can send you my patches.
> >
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