Re: [MiNT] Shutting down XaAES cleanly

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 19:26 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>
> > > Btw Control+Alt+J causes a warm reset on my FireBee. I don't know why.
> >
> > That is not as intended -  must be a bug. But you would need this for a res-change.
> >
> > Does Ctrl-Alt-Q work? If you start it from mint.cnf it should be re-launched by xaloader.
>
> Quitting XaAES in any way causes a warm reset. But only on the Firebee.

Not good. Seems it's a crash. Is there a difference between Halt and Reboot?

> > > An even better way would perhaps be to support AP_RESCH (?).
> >
> > I guess that would need longer to implement.
>
> That depends. It can be done quite cheaply I think. You pass the new
> videomode to the AES with this call. XaAES could threat a reschange
> exactly like a shutdown, until the shutdown has finished. Then it must
> store the new videomode somewhere and restart. Then use the stored
> videmode instead of the video-setting in xaaes.cnf.

Sure. First the interface has to be created, I don't know how much is
already there, maybe similar to the bubbleGEM-protocol.

But you would not profit from it on the firebee as long as restart/relaunch don't work.

> It would not be a proper reschange, but for the applications it
> doesn't matter and the effect would be exactly the same.

They would be terminated ;-)

-Helmut