From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 14 18:43:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01713 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 18:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01704 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 18:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA24984; Wed, 15 May 1996 11:22:31 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605150152.LAA24984@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: svgalib for current? (and doscmd) To: tri@iki.fi Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:22:31 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199605140722.KAA03712@pooh.tky.hut.fi> from "Timo J Rinne" at May 14, 96 10:22:01 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Timo J Rinne stands accused of saying: > > I wonder if someone has looked into the possibility to port svgalib > (Linux) for FreeBSD. It seems to have some kernel support in Linux, > but I can't really understand what is it needed for. There was a discussion about this a while back, with the ultimate conclusion that SVGAlib was basically bogus. Soren has something more-or-less equivalent on the back burner if you want to talk to him about it (sos@freebsd.org) > BTW, The doscmd project kind of died or what? Too bad. In NetBSD it > is running quite well. I KEEP ASKING FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS, but nobody has picked it up. 8( The NetBSD people have CMH, who doesn't appear to have to work for a living, working on it. We need someone with a -current system and a little free time to work with Sean to track the kernel/userland interaction problems. That's all. > //Rinne -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[