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Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD!
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
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In reply to Amancio Hasty Jr. who wrote:
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> Well, I just took a quick look at it and again I think is a mess.

I did the exact same thing the last half hour, and I completly
agree, its a mess.And really guys I dont se what it gives us
it has only very limitted chipset support, so we will get
TONS of requests for other  architectures, not my ideal way of
spending a good time.
As I allready stated before,  use the generic modes allready
supported by syscons, or use X, everything else is goin to be a
nightmare on code street.
However I'm willing to put some work into a library for doing
the generic modes via syscons (In fact I allready have one :) )

> I would rather cut out the XFree86 low level graphic support and
> make it into a library than to mess with the so called svgalib.

Oh, well why not use X then for purposes that require 
high res/many colors?? everything else is reinventing the wheel.
Besides doing real time graphics in high res isnt going to work
anyways on 90% of the PC hardware out there, no matter what 
implementation we use.


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