On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote:
> I'm trying to do some work based on vgl but it appears that it is tied to
> syscons and any vgl programs must be started off a console. Is there any
> way I can start a vgl program from a remote terminal (but have the output
> be displayed on the local VGA screen) without writing a proxy of some
> kind?
Err... why do you want to do that? Even if it's a big program, it should
be properly written so that the frontend and backend can be separate
and network-transparent, if that's to be its purpose. So the big question
is, why aren't you using X11?
>
> I peeked at the source and there are various syscons related ioctl() calls.
> Any reason that /dev/io and /dev/mem wasn't used instead?
That's simple. We're not trying to move to making things MORE platform-
specific.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
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