From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Mike Mestnik <cheako911@yahoo.com>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:54:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e47339104091817545b3d2675@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C8oiI-0001xU-UG@evo.keithp.com>
Isn't there an enviroment variable that tells what device is the
console for the session? How do you tell what serial port you're on
when multiple people are logged in on serial lines?
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:33:54 -0700, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
>
> Around 18 o'clock on Sep 18, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > The sysfs scheme has the advantage that there is no special user
> > command required. You just use echo or cp to set the mode.
>
> But it makes it difficult to associate the sysfs entry with the particular
> session. Seems like permitting multiple opens of /dev/fb0 with mode
> setting done on that file pointer will be easier to keep straight
>
>
>
>
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-19 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-18 18:43 Design for setting video modes, ownership of sysfs attributes Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 19:58 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 22:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-18 22:37 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-18 23:33 ` Keith Packard
2004-09-19 0:54 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2004-09-19 1:57 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 2:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 2:32 ` Vladimir Dergachev
2004-09-19 10:11 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 9:55 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 4:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:12 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-20 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-20 1:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 4:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-19 16:46 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-19 17:19 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-19 20:40 ` Keith Packard
2004-09-20 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-19 20:44 ` Felix Kühling
2004-09-20 1:25 ` Mike Mestnik
2004-09-20 0:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-21 12:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-21 15:56 ` Jon Smirl
2004-09-21 15:42 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <2FYdH-10h-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2G6Et-6D7-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-19 14:18 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-09-19 15:00 ` P. Benie
2004-09-19 19:08 ` Pascal Schmidt
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