Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:07:45 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: direct access to video card Message-ID: <199603080007.BAA18105@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603072212.BAA10146@localhost> from "Alexey Pialkin" at Mar 8, 96 01:12:35 am
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As Alexey Pialkin wrote: > BTW, i am interesting in this too. I would like to use FreeBSD for some > experiments in graphics and i _really_ don't whant to use 'X'.. > 'X' are really slow on my 486/8... X does even run on my 386/16 with 5 MB. As long as you only want the functionality you've been describing, who tells you that you gotta start ten xterms, a window manager, a Netscape, and an Emacs? The Xserver itself and the application you're going to develop don't eat up that much memory. If you're going to use a full-screen DGA application, you might even omit the window manager. For the extra megabyte you're paying, you get support for several dozens of graphics cards. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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