From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 19:30:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09330 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09320 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA22983; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:29:54 -0600 (CST) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA27943; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:29:48 -0600 (CST) To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? References: <199710281723.JAA02204@rah.star-gate.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 29 Oct 1997 21:29:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: Amancio Hasty's message of Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:23:12 -0800 Message-ID: <87sotklyhf.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty writes: > If we really wanted we could port it however svgalib brings a support > nightmare. What needs to happen is to tie svgalib to the Xfree86 development > in such a way that that low level graphic functions from the XFree86 server > become available as a library. What about GGI? SVGALib is on it's way out in the linux world anyway; wouldn't it be better to get GGI into freebsd than worry about SVGALib, which sucked to begin with? http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/ -- Steve Farrell