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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] jpg image too big
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:14:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cff5bb270dfcb034e760c135f81152d7@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<dd6fe68a0910200700g6e876655o53bb23274f335b11@mail.gmail.com>>

> > i haven't looked yet to see if the kernel can deal with
> > partial lines, or what could be done about the too-small
> > iounit.  but it would seem to me that something has to
> > give.
>
> you can handle this in loadimage by turning a single
> call with too much data per scan line into multiple
> calls, each delivering a fraction of a scan line
> (there is a rectangle argument that says what subsection
> of the image is being loaded).

oh, great.  i just didn't know if that was legal.
is it also possible to lock the display and send
more than iounit's data?

- erik



       reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<dd6fe68a0910200700g6e876655o53bb23274f335b11@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-20 14:14 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-10-20 14:55   ` Russ Cox
     [not found] <<dd6fe68a0910200755nb397fc5jaef44a12fa3ad049@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-20 15:04 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-20 15:16   ` Russ Cox
2009-10-20 12:04 erik quanstrom
2009-10-20 14:00 ` Russ Cox

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