From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 28 17:22:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA07323 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07314 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:22:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA05483; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:22:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:22:25 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > The (direct?) X extension on newer versions of xfree86 isn't so bad. > Maybye you should take a look into it. I think it lets you use shared > memory to directly write to the x display. I used to play quake under an > extension like this in linux, I am sure it is standard these days. With > the sysvshm working it wasn't at all bad. Yes, it is very 'standard' these days, it is the MIT-SHM extension to X11. The only servers that I have come across that HAVEN'T supported this are X-Stations, and PC Xservers. Everything UNIX based >= X11R5 that I have seen has been MIT-SHM enabled. (you do need to have shared memory support in the kernel). I have never actually programmed the MIT-SHM extension though :I -- David Cross