Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-19 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:16:00AM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Framebuffer devices, etc... Actually this discussion is moot: there has been an important advance in porting KGI to FreeBSD. Check the developers list archives in http://kgi.sourceforge.net/ For those lazy: it's not

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-09 Thread Kevin D . Wooten
i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, again)? I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb ? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there. I will say the video mode selection looks weak though,

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-09 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kevin D.Wooten wrote: i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, again)? I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb ? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there. I will say

Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Vladimir Kushnir
Hi all, A couple of questions here. i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, again)? They work quite nice under Linux for multimedia apps, and it's a pity we haven't got anything of this kind (TNT2 based v/cards with HW accelleration, for one). Did anybody try to

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Craig R
are independant projects and should remain as such. -- Craig From: Vladimir Kushnir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD? Hi all, A couple of questions here. i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 09-Nov-2001 Craig R wrote: code and build it straight into the base OS. A linux compatability layer could be made (similar idea as the existing binary support) so that more applications would run, but the system itself would be independant. The idea Why write yet another interface?