Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 03:53:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Wilson MacGyver <macgyver@donna.cylatech.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199509270753.DAA00999@donna.cylatech.com> In-Reply-To: <199509270731.IAA11353@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 27, 95 08:31:51 am
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> 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.
I don't think it's GPL'ed.
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Title: svgalib
Version: 1.27
Entered-date: 13AUG95
Description: Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA
modes in a console. It is not intended as an alternative
to X for apps, but rather a set of tools for things like
VGA games, image viewing in modes that X cannot support, etc.
Keywords: graphics, VGA, SVGA, library
Author: hhanemaa@cs.ruu.nl (Harm Hanemaayer)
Maintained-by: Temporarily maintained by eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de (Michael
Weller)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/libs/graphics
442K svgalib127.tar.gz
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/libs
442K svgalib127.tar.gz
Platforms: Linux/Intel (too many vgacards to list here); Linux/Alpha (up
to now only #9 GXE PCI KNOWN to work, other cards may/should
work.
Copying-policy: Freely distributable.
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