From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 15:42:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0341526A for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:42:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA67086; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:42:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:42:17 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ed Alley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVGAlib? Message-ID: <19991219174217.A66486@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199912192135.NAA20685@jordan.llnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912192135.NAA20685@jordan.llnl.gov>; from "Ed Alley" on Sun Dec 19 13:35:11 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 19), Ed Alley said: > I am a newcomer to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. I would like to > move to FreeBSD from Linux. I have install FreeBSD on my home PC > along with Linux and something from Microsoft (for the family you > understand (;->) ). I have recently gotten mad at Linux because they > are beginning to bloat up and the kernel (2.2.x) runs slower than the > earlier ones. The problem is that I have written alot of software > through the years that I would like to port. Most of it went over OK > (even my X stuff), however, I have written a large graphics > application which uses Svgalib under Linux. I noticed that the ports > collection doesn't have that application. Is anyone working on > porting Svgalib? If not maybe I can bug the author about it. I don't think there are any plans to port svgalib. If you need graphics, X is the recommended interface. FreeBSD does have a low-level non-X graphics library called 'libvgl', though, which should be able to handle any VESA mode. See /usr/share/examples/libvgl/demo.c for a sample program. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message