Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:27:25 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <199802181127.MAA02210@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980218113039.1793D-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Feb 18, 98 11:35:01 am"
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In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, S_ren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > In reply to Andrzej Bialecki who wrote:
>
> > > Now, its libbitblit supports only 320x200x256 and 640x480x2 modes (except
> > > some other extended modes on Trident cards). I wonder what would it take
> > > to use our libvgl instead of that somewhat antiquated library. Can I use
> > > other resolutions (at least 640x480x256) with libvgl?
> >
> > Well, you can use libvgl to support std modes, 640x480x256 is NOT one of
> > them. There is hope when we get VESA support into the system, but until
> > then...
>
> And what about 640x480x16? I just checked it and it works (though the
> symbolic names in /usr/share/examples/libvgl/demo.c are somewhat out of
> sync with <machine/console.h>).
Yup 640x480x16 is a supported mode and it works on all VGA hw.
> Also, when you ported it to SCO, did you do any development of it? Like
> e.g. widgets... :-))
Nope, I realized pretty quickly that this was a dead-end and went on
to more important things. I think MGR is totally dead today, there has
been no development done since back then.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
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