From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 9 06:21:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26454 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26402 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA22263 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:21:27 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA27358 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id OAA00970 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:50:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603091350.OAA00970@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: direct access to video card To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 14:50:10 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603091130.MAA26778@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> from "Marc van Kempen" at Mar 9, 96 12:30:47 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Marc van Kempen wrote: > I thought we had libsvga working in part, Joerg? Dunno. While i could imagine that it's not too difficult to get it running at 320x200x256 (or 640x400x16 -- but who's really going to deal with that bit-plane crap anymore?), i don't trust the model for any of the more advanced cards. Seeing how much time it costs for the XFree86 folks to keep up with the pace new boards are being marketed each day, how is libsvga supposed to do this? In addition, more and more people are running X11 anyway, so why force them to switch back to another screen? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)