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Date:      Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:59:04 EDT
From:      "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
To:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: direct access to video card 
Message-ID:  <199603091459.OAA08404@exalt.x.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 09 Mar 1996 14:50:10 EDT. <199603091350.OAA00970@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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> As Marc van Kempen wrote:
> 
> > I thought we had libsvga working in part, Joerg?
> 
> Dunno.  While i could imagine that it's not too difficult to get it
> running at 320x200x256 (or 640x400x16 -- but who's really going to
> deal with that bit-plane crap anymore?), i don't trust the model for
> any of the more advanced cards.  Seeing how much time it costs for the
> XFree86 folks to keep up with the pace new boards are being marketed
> each day, how is libsvga supposed to do this?
> 
> In addition, more and more people are running X11 anyway, so why force
> them to switch back to another screen?

I think you really want to use the Direct Graphics Access extension
that XFree86 now has. Find out more on one of the XFree86 mailing lists.

--

Kaleb KEITHLEY



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