Re: I wrote a little graphics thing

Michael <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:52:32 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <20260714095232.4f3e2bce@bushmills>
Hello,

did some more work:
- finally implemented key repeat
- ioctl(WSDISPLAYIO_SVIDEO) based screen saver
- use a hardware sprite for the mouse cursor if we find support via wsdisplay
- made sure the shadow fb covers only the visible screen - some
  hardware ( like ffb, all HP ) has a fixed pitch of usually 2048 pixels
- use only 32bit reads and writes when updating video memory ( should
  change that to unsigned long for LP64 hw )
- open as many terminals as we can fit on the screen, how many you get
  depends on the font used

As a result this is quite usable on an ss5 despite not using any
hardware acceleration.

Finally, thanks to Christos, it's got a proper name now.
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/gooeymux.tar.gz

have fun
Michael