Re: rootskel - framebuffer / serial console
On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 12:53, Bastian Blank wrote:
> hi folks
>
> i changed the rootskel code to be easier extensible.
> the next problem to solve is the problem framebuffer and serial console.
>
> i want to implement the handling like this:
> - check the type of the console (linux specific: readlink
> /proc/self/
> - if virtual console and linux:
> - load framebuffer modules (currently i386 specific)
> - enable utf8
Enable UTF-8 is currently done in rootskel if UTF-8 locale exists.
Note: we can have unwanted effects if we have i18n and don't have UTF-8
with double-width char support (eg as in bterm):
the line width calculations look skewed. We have no dependency check to
ensure that if i18n (eg languagechooser) is used, an i18n-capable
frontend is used (eg bterm or gtk). We might want to add one.
> - look for a framebuffer (devfs specific: -e /dev/fb/0)
> - if want to use linux framebuffer
> - use bterm
>
Remember to set the bterm use only if the frontend != gtk.
> bastian
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