Re: SVGAlib...the neverending saga
Christopher C Chimelis <chris@beezer.med.miami.edu> writes:
> On 29 Oct 1998, Brederlow wrote:
>
> > WHY?
> > Svgalib is a dirty, ugly and stupid programm that crashes your Linux
> > most of the time. Its the only way to sure kill your Linux apart from
> > kill -9 -1 while X is running.
>
> Agreed....unfortunately, it's somewhat of a throwback that we need to deal
> with a bit. I'd also like to know one way or another if it actually works
> on the Alpha to let the upstream author(s) know since they include "it
> works" in their docs... :-)
>
> > Your time is probably better invested in getting ggi to work in a
> > framebuffer and then use ggi`s svgalib emulation. The speed penalty
> > (if any) should be pretty irelevant on an Alpha. The GGI is quite
> > superior to the svgalib.
>
> True and a great idea. I haven't had time to look at it, but since I hit
> a small brick wall with svgalib, I'll look into it. Thanks for the
> suggestion!
Great, I hope I was not to direct with my dislike of svgalib, but I
lost enough data due to filesystem incoherency after crashes of
svgalib to hate it. :)
May the Source be with you.
Mrvn
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