From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 9 06:59:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA00227 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA00221 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:59:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA15848; Sat, 9 Mar 96 09:59:05 -0500 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id OAA08404; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:59:04 GMT Message-Id: <199603091459.OAA08404@exalt.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: direct access to video card In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 09 Mar 1996 14:50:10 EDT. <199603091350.OAA00970@uriah.heep.sax.de> Organization: X Consortium Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 09:59:04 EDT From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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