From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 29 21:07:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA14511 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA14504 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:07:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04949; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:06:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199710300506.VAA04949@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: stephen farrell cc: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: svgalib? In-reply-to: Your message of "29 Oct 1997 21:29:48 CST." <87sotklyhf.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:06:49 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If they can manage to tie the support to a project such as XFree86 then yes otherwise it just simply going to be just another svgalib :( Cheers, Amancio > 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 >