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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Michael Kaufmann <kaufmann@sohard.de>,
	Linux Fbdev development list
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Mirrored Display?
Date: 16 Dec 2002 01:40:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039999225.9260.30.camel@thor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039985803.1080.119.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Son, 2002-12-15 at 21:57, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> 
> 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".
> 
> 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.


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


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-13 18:33 Mirrored Display? Michael Kaufmann
2002-12-15  0:29 ` Antonino Daplas
2002-12-15 17:03   ` Michael Kaufmann
2002-12-15 20:57     ` Antonino Daplas
2002-12-16  0:40       ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2002-12-20 19:49 ` James Simmons
2002-12-23 13:04   ` Michael Kaufmann
2002-12-29 15:59     ` Antonino Daplas
2003-01-07 21:18       ` James Simmons

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