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mark03 · 06-12-2011, 12:18 PM

Hi h1uke,

I know you *can* refresh the display using the /proc interface. There are also ioctls that can be called to do the same thing.

My question, though, was not "does anyone know how to make the screen refresh" but rather, how the Amazon Framework is going about it. And in particular, have they modified their version of directfb to accomplish this? Or are they working around directfb, having the app trigger refreshes directly via /proc or ioctls?

Since they already have directfb on the system, and there are a ton of apps that could run under directfb (thanks to directfb-gtk support), this seems like a promising avenue of research...

06-12-2011, 12:18 PM	#6
mark03 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle 3 wifi	Hi h1uke, I know you can refresh the display using the /proc interface. There are also ioctls that can be called to do the same thing. My question, though, was not "does anyone know how to make the screen refresh" but rather, how the Amazon Framework is going about it. And in particular, have they modified their version of directfb to accomplish this? Or are they working around directfb, having the app trigger refreshes directly via /proc or ioctls? Since they already have directfb on the system, and there are a ton of apps that could run under directfb (thanks to directfb-gtk support), this seems like a promising avenue of research...