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From: Olof Johansson <offe@dawnrazor.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD!
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On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 sos@freebsd.org wrote:

> In reply to Amancio Hasty Jr. who wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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 :) )

Fine. :)  I only want a VGA programming package. :-)

> 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.

High res is a problem, but for low-res usage (say, installation software 
or whatever) X is sometimes too big.


					-Olof