Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 20:34:12 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chien-Ta Lee), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <199512290434.UAA00753@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 22:01:39 GMT." <199512282201.WAA02172@linus.demon.co.uk>
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Oh, is not hard to port the linux svgalib . Trust me I did it many moons
ago... Do I want it nope, I just trashed it 8)
Also, if you have a P100 or better you can run xdoom with -3 and is fine
for playing. At any rate , I do over here along with with sound server.
Amancio
>>> Mark Valentine said:
> > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> > 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.
>
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