Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:44:43 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> Cc: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980219213936.27649A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <34EC7EFA.41C67EA6@asme.org>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Jonathan Mini wrote:
> >
> > Soren wants to see it merged into libvgl -- I would prefer to replace
> > libvgl with something more robust at the same time.
> > Hmm.. Maybe I should start work on a 'better libvgl' immediatly,
> > so that the API can affirm itself before I get the VESA VBE code
> > online?
> >
> I'm sort of working of that, but I got distracted by classes (and some
> ports).
>
> The idea is to use a vesa.h for the low level mouse-keyboard-graphic
> support and have vgl and Allegro work on top of that. I am planning to
> use the headers from OS/2's VESA package (for emx), so that we can also
> port their graphic libraries. I have their API here and it seems good
> for my purposes: I dream of porting some DOS-like packages to fullscreen
> FreeBSD :-).
>
> I hadn't thought of MGR, but I'll have to take a look at their library
> because libvgl didn't behave well on my card :(
Major advantage of MGR is that it's a server-client model, very close in
concept to X, with all advantages of remote clients etc. If we could
hammer out something like this, it would be a big win IMHO. Not that I
like the X protocol (I don't know it too well either), but the concept is
sound and proved useful (at least in case of X).
Andrzej Bialecki
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