Re: [MiNT] Shutting down XaAES cleanly

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:12 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:

> > 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.

The interface is already created. It's described in various docs
(including tos.hyp, see shel_write()) and it's very simple. AFAICS the
parameter you pass in shel_write() can substitute the video-setting
directly.

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

That's a different issue. It would still work on other computers.

Jo Even