From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 12:35:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29126 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 12:35:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29121 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 12:35:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA22909; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 21:24:35 +0100 Message-Id: <199512232024.VAA22909@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: syscons driver To: jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chien-Ta Lee) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 21:24:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199512231352.VAA08926@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw> from "Chien-Ta Lee" at Dec 23, 95 09:52:55 pm From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In reply to Chien-Ta Lee who wrote: > > > Hi : > > Is there any plan to add mouse (cut & paste) support to syscons > driver ? This is one of the additions I'm currently working on... > And anyone port Linux's svga-lib to FreeBSD ?! If it is ported, > we might be able to port some Console Chinese Terminal Emulators > from Linux to FreeBSD ....and of course, games..... :) Hmm, I've once ported svgalib to FreeBSD (long ago), but I wasn't impressed with it. I think its just too limited in functionality regarding support of graphics chipsets (and I see no way this could be improved easily). If however you want to do games, syscons allready allows to set up std VGA modes (320x200x256) used by most games. I will however release a graphics capable library based somewhat on the libdgl that I did some years ago, but with a totally different goal (more on that later, there is still too much work to be done on that one). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.