From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 28 14:12:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA03870 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:12:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA03845 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:12:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02172; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:01:39 GMT Message-Id: <199512282201.WAA02172@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:01:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Dec 27, 7:59pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Michael Smith Subject: Re: syscons driver Cc: jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chien-Ta Lee), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > Date: Wed 27 Dec, 1995 > Subject: Re: syscons driver > > SVGAlib is a wank. Sorry to all those Linuxers who just love it, but > > it doesn't actually _achieve_ anything. > > Well, I think that's actually a bit harsh.. I've seen a couple of > perfectly acceptable games running under svgalib (asteroids, doom) and How far away are we from being able to support Linux's SVGAlib in emulation mode? Since I need a separate X server to run xdoom in 320x200 mode anyway, I'd rather just dedicate a virtual console to sdoom instead (taking a fireball in the face while accidentally visiting another virtual screen would also be less of a problem :-). The Chinese terminal emulator for Linux might also be used like this. > you need a low level shim written for each type of gfx card chipset. Is this necessary just for the "interesting" modes (640x480x4 and 320x200x8)? X is just fine for anything fancier... If syscons will do those modes, then of course we don't need native svgalib. Mark.