From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 7 2: 4:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA53414BE4 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 02:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA97959; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:03:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199903071003.LAA97959@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: GGI In-Reply-To: <19990307152541.O4858@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Mar 7, 1999 3:25:41 pm" To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 11:03:42 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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