From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 19 12:43:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18834 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:43:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18802 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA29291; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:44:43 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:44:43 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" cc: Jonathan Mini , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MGR and libvgl In-Reply-To: <34EC7EFA.41C67EA6@asme.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message