From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 7 9:36:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8136E14BD8; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 09:36:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.52]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB25FE; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 18:36:12 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA47554; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 18:17:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 18:17:32 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libvgl - status and perspectives Message-ID: <19991107181732.B41126@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [19991106 04:01], Andrzej Bialecki (abial@webgiro.com) wrote: >Today I noticed accidentally that either libvgl is broken, or the demo >program does something wrong - the mouse cursor doesn't move. > >But this brings more general question regarding console graphics library. >As it is today, libvgl is almost useless due to very limited set of >functions. There were discussions whether to port SVGAlib or GGI. Do you >know if someone is working/planning to work on it? libggi has more support for FreeBSD than svgalib has and it also seems to be preferred over svgalib due to security hassles and all that. So you might want to try that route. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best In every stone sleeps a crystal... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message