Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:31:51 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199509270731.IAA11353@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199509270537.WAA13001@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Sep 26, 95 10:37:35 pm
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> The biggest problem with the svgalib is its lack of support for svga
> cards. For instance, the last time that I checked there was no
> support for S3 cards . I guess a good starting point will be to
> port whatever is available then include a lot of the XFree86 init
> and graphic routines. The effort is almost not worth it -- at least
> from my point and view . I suggest doing a net search for a better package.
I didn't take a look at it yet but I don't regard it such useless
if it supports at least the standard vga modes and eventually
a 256 color mode. It would be ideal to be incorporated into Jordans
new sysinstall stuff to allow for ('better') graphical setup
look and feel (a la Win95, ducking and holding hands against ears :-)
I dropped the original posting of Olof Johansson. Can someone give the
coordinates of the package (vgalib) please once again?
If it's GPL'ed it's ruled out as a candidate for
graphical install stuff, of course.
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> My 0.2 graphical cents
> Amancio
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> >>> J Wunsch said:
> > As Olof Johansson wrote:
> > >
> > > A couple of months ago someone mentioned that he/she had ported an old
> > > vgalib from linux to FreeBSD. I'd like to know how old that version was,
> > > and how much work it'd be to port the latest version. :)
> >
> > I think somebody is porting it for NetBSD.
> >
> > --
> > cheers, J"org
> >
> > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> >
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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