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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:14:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] jpg image too big
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> > 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