Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:26:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: TGA driver Message-ID: <XFMail.010919102631.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3BA8C3A0.3070709@attglobal.net>
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On 19-Sep-01 Andrew M. Miklic wrote: > All, > > I had been working for the past year or so (with much help from Drew > Gallatin, Peter Jeremy, and Thomas V. Crimi) on a TGA driver for > FreeBSD, and I have a somewhat preliminary but nearly fully-functional > driver available (there are a definite few rough edges, though). The > following are known working features: > > * works for TGA rev B amd C and TGA2 (VGA-mode) cards > * text works (and is relatively fast) > * X works (although there is still a problem with vty switching > from/to X) > * text-mode vty-switching works > * blank and green screensavers work > * mouse (including full cut-and-paste) works (highlighted text does > not work) > > I have tried unsuccessfuly to get it committed by various people > (this is not a slam on them, as I know that everybody on the team is > very busy), and I have less time to play with the driver now than I > would like, so I would like to offer the code (and project) over to > anyone who has the time, interest, or inclination to take it on... > > I can provide a gzipp'ed tarball and diff file to anyone upon request > (sorry--I don't have a website to dangle it from)--the source is a bit > out of date, but new files in the gzipp'ed tarball shouldn't depend on > any other code changes, and pre-existing files are in diff-format so > that they should be relatively easy to bring up-to-date... I will put the tarball and diff up at www.freebsd.org/~jhb/tga/ if you would like to send it to me. I think I have a TGA2 card here that was in my Miata. > Sincerely, > Andrew Miklic -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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