From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 00:36:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA17586 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:36:18 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA17578 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:36:11 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA11353; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:31:52 +0100 Message-Id: <199509270731.IAA11353@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 08:31:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509270537.WAA13001@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Sep 26, 95 10:37:35 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1601 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. I didn't take a look at it yet but I don't regard it such useless if it supports at least the standard vga modes and eventually a 256 color mode. It would be ideal to be incorporated into Jordans new sysinstall stuff to allow for ('better') graphical setup look and feel (a la Win95, ducking and holding hands against ears :-) I dropped the original posting of Olof Johansson. Can someone give the coordinates of the package (vgalib) please once again? If it's GPL'ed it's ruled out as a candidate for graphical install stuff, of course. > > 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. ;-) > > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de