Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Mirrored Display?

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Son, 2002-12-15 at 21:57, Antonino Daplas wrote:
>=20
> User apps will always assume that the first pixel written to the
> framebuffer will appear as the first pixel of the first scanline of your
> display.  Meaning, for apps that will always use mmap, you have to
> rewrite them so they raster "right->left" instead of "left->right".
>=20
> If you think about it, a hardware solution seems to be more feasible.

This may be true in general, but at least for X it wouldn't be hard to
add an option for mirroring via a shadow framebuffer.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast