From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 26 22:38:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA14389 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:38:14 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA14384 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:38:10 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA13001; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:37:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199509270537.WAA13001@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se (Olof Johansson), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 21:40:51 BST." <199509262040.VAA15651@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:37:35 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The biggest problem with the svgalib is its lack of support for svga cards. For instance, the last time that I checked there was no support for S3 cards . I guess a good starting point will be to port whatever is available then include a lot of the XFree86 init and graphic routines. The effort is almost not worth it -- at least from my point and view . I suggest doing a net search for a better package. My 0.2 graphical cents Amancio >>> J Wunsch said: > As Olof Johansson wrote: > > > > A couple of months ago someone mentioned that he/she had ported an old > > vgalib from linux to FreeBSD. I'd like to know how old that version was, > > and how much work it'd be to port the latest version. :) > > I think somebody is porting it for NetBSD. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >