From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 27 00:53:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA18334 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:53:56 -0700 Received: from donna.cylatech.com (macgyver@cmh-p102.infinet.com [205.133.22.102]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA18314 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 00:53:42 -0700 Received: (from macgyver@localhost) by donna.cylatech.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA00999 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 1995 03:53:38 -0400 From: Wilson MacGyver Message-Id: <199509270753.DAA00999@donna.cylatech.com> Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 03:53:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199509270731.IAA11353@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 27, 95 08:31:51 am Reply-To: macgyver@cylatech.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1837 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. End -- Wilson MacGyver macgyver@cylatech.com -------------------------------------- Each new story, no matter how many you've written before, is a new, unlimited promise--to yourself. - Nancy Kress