[iPAQ] Re: [Linux] pocketlinux

> Sender: jim@jimpick.com
> From: Jim Pick <jim@pocketlinux.com>

Material elided.

> > People would like to be able to run other software in addition to
> > yours, not to mention the X implementation smokes the very slow
> > implementation I saw running last week directly to the
> > framebuffer....
>
> Don't let Peter hear you say that... :-)

Yeah, I know, Java bigots are all alike :-).

>
> The version at the show that was rotated 90 degrees so that it could
> work in portrait mode used a pretty crude hack to get it to work in
> time for the show.
>
> Peter had previously made the assumption when writing fgl that the
> screen orientation would always match the memory orientation (which
> doesn't hold true on the iPaq). So he's got a bit of work to do
> there.
>
> I didn't see X running in portrait mode yet (not to say it hasn't been
> done yet, I don't know).
>
>

Keith and I will start work on this later this week. I'll be posting
a draft of a specification for the X R&R extension (resize and rotate)
for comment as soon as I've written it. We discussed the design in some
detail last Friday.

                        - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com