FreeBSD? [was: compiling, ltmain.sh not found]
Nicolas Souchu
nsouch@free.fr
Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:43:19 +0000
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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