I'm using Fungen to create a game in Haskell, and I run it without problems in my pc with Windows XP. The problem is when I try to make it run in another PC. I've tried running it in other 3 PCs with Windows XP, but when the game window opens, it is all white and I cann't do anything in the game. The strange thing is, that I can run the classical Fungen examples (Pong and Worms) in the other PCs without problems. I have a friend that can run my example in Windows 7 with a PC similar to mine.
The other PCs have worse hardware than mine, so I think that that's the problem here, but I want to know if it's something else.
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Running an up-to-date Gentoo on my Sager NP8298 (Clevo P177SM-A), and I am heartbreakingly close to having all of my hardware running beautifully. I found a nice open source driver to run my keyboard backlight at this GitHub repo, but the problem was it was made for a Clevo chassis that didn't have the touchpad light that mine does. Kinda tacky, I know, but the problem is that the default color for the touchpad light is blue, and can be kind of distracting when the keyboard is set to a different color.
I'd at least like to be able to turn the light off, if not control its color. I have a Windows install and am able to access the proprietary driver that came with the computer. I just don't quite know where to start on trying to modify this driver, if there were some Windows utilities that I could use to see what the driver is doing and how to access the LED programatically, it would be a huge help. Any ideas?
Other functionality that I'd like to add is Fn+Num pad 7 through 9 for toggling the left, center, and right part of the keyboard individually, and Fn+5 for a num pad light toggle, as the Windows driver does. I just need to know what signals need to be sent to the hardware and how to send them.
Whatever I end up with I'll be sure to fork the project and share the results with other users of this hardware.
You need the source code of driver you want to change. With that and all required bits and bobs (a.k.a. dependences) you can change it to do whatever you want.
That said, there are quite a few things to consider. You need to know, at least at a reasonable level, the language used to build the driver, platform dependencies if any.
I've done similar work for some network drivers like 15 years ago and no it's not a fun job.
I am trying to run VPython on my new refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad. Every program I run seems to calculate and print just fine, but there are no graphics being displayed. The black-screen window that usually pops up when running a program is not being displayed although my computer appears to be running through calculations. I am pretty sure I installed VPython correctly, and I'm pretty sure this is not a programming error.
Does anyone know anything about an incompatibility of older computers and VPython that I can look into?
P.S I think you can tell I'm pretty new to programming, but any help will be appreciated!
I'm having a weird bug on one of my computers with Visual C++. For some reason the screen will stop refreshing where my source code is. I can force a single refresh if I minimize and maximize Visual C++.
For example if I try to type something or use the scroll bar, it will not show any changes until I minimize and maximize. If I type something the changes have been made however. I can save and those changes will remain.
Oddly auto-complete still works as intended. If I type myClass.get_ it will bring up the auto-complete window.
It seems to occur randomly. It can happen if I leave the program up for a bit while doing other things or when I first start up the program. A fresh reboot nearly always fixes at that moment but what ever the cause is will occur after time. One thing that nearly always causes the program to stop working is if I start a video game.
I'd appreciate any help, thanks.
Assuming this is VS2010 - I think it does new-fangled GUI things with WPF and notably relies on hardware acceleration and write combining quite a lot more than before.
I had display issues in a virtual box gues installation (with multiple-monitor support in the guest enabled). I worked around it by lowering / disabling the hardware acceleration settings for the (virtual) graphics adaptor.
right click desktop
screen resolution
advanced/performance
use the slider to adjust acceleration level
Changing this setting apparently required a reboot on my system when I did it.
I use gnome-terminal (Ubuntu 10.10). I like it, though I'd be willing to switch to another for this feature.
Can anyone tell me how I can broadcast keystrokes to multiple windows? The closest thing I've found is the "Terminator" program, which allows for broadcasting to multiple tabs, but not to multiple windows. Apparently a similar feature was removed from v3 of Konsole when it went to v4 (no idea why). There are also similar capabilities in screen, but not between windows, as far as I can tell.
I've spent a number of hours looking, but no joy.
I'd also be willing for a general solution (input to multiple windows of any kind) that I could adapt for use with terminal windows.
Thanks.
Try with a software called keyboardcast: apt-get install keyboardcast
For the source: http://web.archive.org/web/20100130104001/http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/code/keyboardcast/
i have had this problem for 3-4 months. OpenGL codes do not run that good as they should in windows. I have a project that i need to run it in linux, with times, pipes, ... that use the Windows API. I need to migrate the code but it doesn't look good. For example they are flashing on the screen! is it from my graphics card on linux? or is it some other difficulties?
Also i have ATI HD3470 on VAIO-FW13GU/H laptop running Debian5. Are there any good(i have seen some drivers but not so good :-S) drivers for ati hd series?
Try creating some simple demo program that uses the OpenGL features you're using in your code. Try isolating which features causes the problem. If all of them worked as you expected, there is a chance that the bug is in your code you may be assuming some platform specific behavior that get borked in linux.
I have had a bug when porting a Windows C++ code, where the 3D mesh parsing code doesn't correctly handle windows-style line ending and that caused the mesh to produce ugly colors since it passes a number string to a home-brewn string-to-int function (which I promptly replaced with atoi()), which gets silently borked when it meets the extra line end character.