Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:03:42 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI Message-ID: <199903071003.LAA97959@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19990307152541.O4858@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Mar 7, 1999 3:25:41 pm"
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It seems David Dawes wrote: > >Just FWIW, I was approached by one of the GGI group (actually, in the > >employ of Creative, who are apparently going crazy right now about > >cross-platform support) at Linuxworld. The GGI folks seem quite fervent > >about fixing GGI so that everyone loves it, and they see FreeBSD as > >possibly a better place to start getting it right than Linux (which > >already has a half-assed framebuffer driver). > > Speaking of which (the Linux fb driver, not GGI), we're just adding a > driver to XFree86 4.0 that can use the Linux fb driver. It is useful > from our point of view for getting initial unaccelerated support for > otherwise unsupported video cards. I had a feeling that something > similar could be done for FreeBSD (using the VESA support in -current). > Is that right? If so, is anyone interested in doing it? It can easily be done using the VESA stuff and/or libvgl. And no, I think I have plenty on my platter for the time being :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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