retitle 132042 ITA: svgalib -- Console SVGA display utilities thanks I've been a registered Debian developer for years but haven't been active due to a lack of a PC to work from. I now have a new PC that I can dedicate as a Linux desktop so I'm able to return to Debian development. SVGAlib sounds like a good place to start. My new PC has a Radeon 7500 that is only directly supported in svgalib 1.9.x, but my Linux firewall has a Cirrus Logic 5446 which is compatible with svgalib 1.4.x in VESA mode. That should be enough From the upstream author's comment in the SVGAlib mailing list, it sound like it'll be a long time before svgalib 2.0 comes out. I intend to package svgalib 1.9 seperately (some changes in it aren't compatible with 1.4), and hopefully I can back-port the new drivers in the 1.9 series to 1.4.3 - if not, I'll ask maintainers of packages using svgalib to switch to the newer library. My key in the Debian keyring is a PGP 2 key which doesn't work with gnupg, and I'm currently waiting for my new key to be uploaded to the keyring. I may have to ask another developer to NMU my packages for me until my key is uploaded. -- Dennis L. Clark dbugger@debian.org Charlotte, NC, USA OpenPGP Key ID: 0x0034C733 "Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion
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