Re: [MiNT] Shutting down XaAES cleanly

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

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 18:38 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>
> > > I have written a small program to select screen resolution under XaAES
> > > +FireTOS. I want this program to tell XaAES to restart (and thus read
> >
> > Would it be enough to just restart the same binary (Ctrl-Alt-J), or does it have to be re-launched?
>
> It doesn't matter as long as it re-reads xaaes.cnf and it's capable of
> starting in another resolution.

As long as the VDI does not get in the way this should work.

> 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.

> > I think this is currently not possible. My first idea would be to add a
> > command to the alert-interface, i.e. your program would write a certain string
> > to /pipe/alert. That should be easy to do.
>
> Why not do it like N.AES? I.e. send a message to the AES using
> shel_write()? This is an already established way to send messages to the
> AES. It doesn't make much sense to me to use the alert-pipe to
> configure/control the AES, and the framework is already there in
> xa_shel.c
>
> An even better way would perhaps be to support AP_RESCH (?).

I guess that would need longer to implement.


-Helmut