Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:42:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVGAlib? Message-ID: <19991219174217.A66486@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199912192135.NAA20685@jordan.llnl.gov>; from "Ed Alley" on Sun Dec 19 13:35:11 GMT 1999 References: <199912192135.NAA20685@jordan.llnl.gov>
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In the last episode (Dec 19), Ed Alley said: > I am a newcomer to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. I would like to > move to FreeBSD from Linux. I have install FreeBSD on my home PC > along with Linux and something from Microsoft (for the family you > understand (;->) ). I have recently gotten mad at Linux because they > are beginning to bloat up and the kernel (2.2.x) runs slower than the > earlier ones. The problem is that I have written alot of software > through the years that I would like to port. Most of it went over OK > (even my X stuff), however, I have written a large graphics > application which uses Svgalib under Linux. I noticed that the ports > collection doesn't have that application. Is anyone working on > porting Svgalib? If not maybe I can bug the author about it. I don't think there are any plans to port svgalib. If you need graphics, X is the recommended interface. FreeBSD does have a low-level non-X graphics library called 'libvgl', though, which should be able to handle any VESA mode. See /usr/share/examples/libvgl/demo.c for a sample program. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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