From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 8 04:34:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02321 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:21:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02256 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:21:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA21640 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:50:45 -0800 Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA03148 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:46:24 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA04896 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:27:13 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05852 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA05758 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05744 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 19:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01942 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 06:40:34 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sovcom.kiae.su with SMTP id AA28082 (5.65.kiae-1 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 06:07:42 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23221 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:21:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23073 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23063 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA26174 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:20:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA09303 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:20:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id BAA18105 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:07:46 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603080007.BAA18105@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: direct access to video card To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:07:45 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603072212.BAA10146@localhost> from "Alexey Pialkin" at Mar 8, 96 01:12:35 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Alexey Pialkin wrote: > BTW, i am interesting in this too. I would like to use FreeBSD for some > experiments in graphics and i _really_ don't whant to use 'X'.. > 'X' are really slow on my 486/8... X does even run on my 386/16 with 5 MB. As long as you only want the functionality you've been describing, who tells you that you gotta start ten xterms, a window manager, a Netscape, and an Emacs? The Xserver itself and the application you're going to develop don't eat up that much memory. If you're going to use a full-screen DGA application, you might even omit the window manager. For the extra megabyte you're paying, you get support for several dozens of graphics cards. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)