Re: [lcd4linux] T6963c support?

[Moe W. <es...@an...>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:47:22AM +0200, Michael Reinelt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >does anyone know whether there are any plans to support the graphic mode of
> >T6963c driven displays in lcd4linux?  After some intensive googling it 
> >seems
> >to me like there's no software/driver available to make use of the graphics
> >mode with linux, yet.
> 
> Well, the T6963-driver supports graphic mode _only_ :-)

Oh okay, now that does sound good! :)

> The display is used as a raster device, all the font rendering, bar 
> rendering and so on is done in lcd4linux. This way, you get "perfect" 
> bars, because there's no limitation of user-defined characters as in 
> other displays.

Got any screenshots of these? (just curious)

> >how good is the text-mode support in l4l anyways?
> 
> non-existant :-)

Okay, I'll rephrase my question:
How good is the graphics-mode support in l4l? ;)

I mean; will I be limited to the chars and symbols offered by l4l, or can I
actually dump small bitmaps to the display and/or control it pixelwise?

If that's not possible yet, it will definately be
the first thing I'll try to hack up once I got my display.

I took a quick glance at the code and all the scary parallel-port stuff seems
to be nicely wrapped, so I might actually be able to do it even tho my C is,
*ahem*, rusty. ;)

> bye, Michael

Thanks for updating me!


best regards
-- 
MW