Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:48:00 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <m0tVZXk-000022C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <6533.820182683@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 28, 95 12:31:23 pm
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>From the keyboard of Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > First of, we got to have people willing to write apps 8)
> > X by itself is okay -- hard to use however it is flexible enough so
>
> X won't really be OK until it's easier to *install and configure*. :-(
If it is possible to write a lib for _generic_ VGA modes, then it should
be no problem installing a generic X - or better, it should be part of the
distribution so that there is no need to _install_ it, it would be simply
there.
Besides this i consider X (and curses) the only portable environment to use
if i ever were to write something GUIsh - this is no offense - i would never
lock my application into something so proprietary as a GUI library for VGAs.
And as for the installation process: support the lowest common denominator
which is and i believe will be a character terminal for many years and many
architectures different from the PC toy machines we are using now.
Imagine FreeBSD on an HP9000/800: no VGA, not even a bitmap display, just
a character terminal as the console....
Just my 0.02 Euro,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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