From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 28 6:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8DC37B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tiamat.ipv6.hackerheaven.org (ipv6.hackerheaven.org [80.126.0.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D56E43E4A for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:15:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from coolvibe@hackerheaven.org) Received: from tiamat.ipv6.hackerheaven.org (localhost.ipv6.hackerheaven.org [127.0.0.1]) by tiamat.ipv6.hackerheaven.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBSE3kUo010707; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:03:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from coolvibe@tiamat.ipv6.hackerheaven.org) Received: (from coolvibe@localhost) by tiamat.ipv6.hackerheaven.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBSE3jjS010706; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:03:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 15:03:45 +0100 From: Emiel Kollof To: Mayuresh Kathe Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer howto? Message-ID: <20021228140345.GA10549@hackerheaven.org> References: <20021227220732.40366.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mutt 1.3.23i (2001-10-09) X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.hackerheaven.org/ X-Info2: http://www.cmdline.org/ X-Info3: http://www.coolvibe.org/ X-message-flag: Out of cheese error! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mayuresh Kathe (mayuresh@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG) wrote: > Thats bad, we could have ported our desktop grade OS to BSD :( Well, since you're writing in hackers@, might I suggest svgalib? If you don't want to rely on svgalib, there's also libvgl, which comes with FreeBSD. Example code is in /usr/share/examples/libvgl. It might not be a framebuffer, but at least svgalib has accelerated modes, and libvgl just works. Of course you could fall back to X, but that's even more gross :) I know that if you use those, it could be considered a gross hack, but at least you have something to draw with until that KGI stuff is here. Cheers, Emiel -- It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message