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- From: Mike MacDonald <mmacdona at tsi dot gte dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:38:22 -0500
There is a good chance though, still, that I'll have to use DirectX to get
the memory pointer.. I don't think that it will be easy to get access to
video memory any other way, even with mapmem.. getio on the other hand..
Thats cool!! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:sssiddiqi@ipass.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
To: Mike MacDonald
Subject: RE: Setting up X Sources
I agree with your approach. Take your time and see if you could
come up
with a solution. Thanks
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike MacDonald [mailto:mmacdona@tsi.gte.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
> To: 'ssiddiqi@ipass.net'
> Subject: RE: Setting up X Sources
>
>
> Well, getio will definately take care of the io problem
> if it works.. I
> think it will.. MapMem should deal with the memory
> mapping.. If it works..
> I think MapMem does IO too, but I think that getio does
> it faster. Its
> mostly just a matter of stitching them into the
> os_support stuff now, and
> debugging. Later maybe combining mapmem and getio into
> one driver.. Its
> the cleanest solution, and enough like what os2 is doing
> that most of the
> same code should apply.. I think os2 calls drivers a
> little different than
> windows, but thats the most of it..
>
> In other words, getting really close to having something
> that might work..
>