Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:29:46 +0100 (MET) From: Olof Johansson <offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950927111627.576U-100000@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199509270920.CAA23591@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 sos@freebsd.org wrote: > In reply to Amancio Hasty Jr. who wrote: > > > > > > Well, I just took a quick look at it and again I think is a mess. > > I did the exact same thing the last half hour, and I completly > agree, its a mess.And really guys I dont se what it gives us > it has only very limitted chipset support, so we will get > TONS of requests for other architectures, not my ideal way of > spending a good time. > As I allready stated before, use the generic modes allready > supported by syscons, or use X, everything else is goin to be a > nightmare on code street. > However I'm willing to put some work into a library for doing > the generic modes via syscons (In fact I allready have one :) ) Fine. :) I only want a VGA programming package. :-) > Oh, well why not use X then for purposes that require > high res/many colors?? everything else is reinventing the wheel. > Besides doing real time graphics in high res isnt going to work > anyways on 90% of the PC hardware out there, no matter what > implementation we use. High res is a problem, but for low-res usage (say, installation software or whatever) X is sometimes too big. -Olof
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