Re: [Simplygnustep-discuss] News

[Peter-Henry M. <gn...@ma...>]

Having 1024x768 would suit my laptops just fine :-) anything different 
looks quite unpleasant

I'm inclined to go with Chad on this one. I haven't come across systems 
for quite a few years now that can't handle 1024x768. I've an old 
Pentium 90MHz system that can do that, albeit in limited colours. If a 
system can't display at that resolution It's probably going to be too 
painfully old and slow to run SGstep. My P90 runs Linux+WindowMaker and 
it's barely adequate. I haven't bothered to dust down the 486-DX 66MHz 
in the garage!

Pete.

ceh...@ma... wrote:
> I know, but anyone who tries to run GNUstep in 640x480 is going to be  
> completely disappointed.  Actually, probable the same with 800x600!   
> However, Let's make the minimum resolution for the system 800x600, with  
> a recommended of 1024x768.
> 
> Chad
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 12:41  AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> 
>> Not all monitors can handle 800x600; unless you intend to make this a
>> minimum system requirement, I would suggest using 640x480 instead for
>> bootstrap purposes.
>>
>> --- ceh...@ma... wrote:
>>
>>> Still building that 2.6 kernel distro set.  Man, this takes foerever!
>>>
>>> Anyone want to donate a 2.8GHZ PIV CPU chip?  That would speed this
>>> up
>>> a lot.  Actually, I wish I could get a DUAL XEON or something but I
>>> just can't afford that right now.
>>>
>>> Anyhow...
>>>
>>> Here's the deal.
>>>
>>> I'm compiling the source to use the new linux 2.6 test kernel.  I
>>> won't
>>> know if it actually works until the whole darn source is compiled.
>>> I'll let you all know how that works though!
>>>
>>> As far as the graphical boot, here's the plan:
>>>
>>> The kernel will have the vesa framebuffer built in, so all boot up
>>> displays will be 16bit color at 800x600?   I don't think all the vid
>>> cards out there will handle the switch to X11, we'll find out though.
>>>
>>> We can always fall back to regular VGA16 if this is a problem.
>>>
>>> Here's my thinking of how this will work:
>>>
>>> When the kernel is done booting, init is called and init calls rcS,
>>> right?  The first thing rcS does is switch all stdout and stderr out
>>> to
>>> /var/log/bootmessages (is there a  more proper way?).
>>> Then, a FIFO is created in /tmp.
>>> Next, a program we will write will monitor the FIFO in /tmp.  this
>>> program will know how to draw stuff to the framebuffer.
>>> The init scripts will replace the "echo"s with a shell command which
>>> puts stuff in the FIFO. Let's call the shell command "BootMessage.sh"
>>> When our program reads the FIFO, it puts it on the framebuffer.
>>> finally, a X11 display manager is run, and that's that.
>>> Now, what to do when the user shutsdown and the display manger dies?
>>> I
>>> guess our program will still be open and watching the FIFO, so we can
>>>
>>> just go right back to graphical until poweroff?
>>>
>>>
>>> Pretty simple I hope.  Unlike other similar projects, this does not
>>> require a kernel path.  Kernel bootup messages can be removed with
>>> the
>>> "messages" kernel parameter.  So, while the kernel is initializing,
>>> the
>>> penguiin will be there until our program is started and stuff starts
>>> getting fed to it from the FIFO.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any comments, suggestions, volunteers?  :-)
>>>
>>> Chad
>>>
>>>
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