Re: FreeBSD? [was: compiling, ltmain.sh not found]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:37:18PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Sorry, but what's the relationship between VESA and:
> > "At that point we should have the current accelerated drivers working"
> 
> The accelerated drivers use the VESA or fbdev (on linux) backends to set
> the video mode.  For ATI and Matrox cards, at least, the VESA
> initialization sets up the card properly for acceleration, so all we
> have to implement in the driver is the actual acceleration code rather

Cool. I was wondering if that would be possible.

> than the intialization and mode setup code.   Of course, this leaves us
> without nice features like MergedFB or other multihead support.

Yes, multihead enforces to setup the HW from zero. What is mergeFB?

> > > While on our family vacation the last few days, I got working on
> > > whacking hw/kdrive/vesa into using the kernel's VESA support for mode
> > > setting.  I think it's pretty close, at least for the modes people
> > 
> > Do you use libvgl?
> 
> Nope.  All of the code in the vesa driver is basically dealing with
> setting modes and mapping the framebuffer, which libvgl probably won't
> help with.

libvgl does this + opens the console keyboard to user apps. I used it
initialy to port GGI to FreeBSD. Now GGI runs on top of KGI.

Here's the URL for people that don't know KGI.

http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD

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> > Any IRC channel about xserver/kdrive?
> 
> #freedesktop on freenode.net is where most of us hang out.  That and
> #xwin

CU there some day then.

Nicholas

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