Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:20:18 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@freebsd.org To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199509270920.CAA23591@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199509270845.BAA00794@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Sep 27, 95 01:45:51 am
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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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So much code to hack -- so little time
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