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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.csie.nctu.edu.tw!jdli From: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chien-Ta Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Better Text modes Date: 16 Aug 1995 08:24:09 GMT Organization: Dep. Comp.Sci.&Info.Eng., Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, R.O.C. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <40s9v9$bod@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> References: <40efdt$7f3@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <40n12v$ink@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Reply-To: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw NNTP-Posting-Host: jdli@ccsun30.csie.nctu.edu.tw X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] => 還記得 [J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de)] 曾說 ..... ) >Also, how does one do VGA/SVGA programming under FreeBSD? ) Only in the hacky way the X server is doing. (Basically, turning the ) VT into `graphics' mode, ie. telling the kernel that the application ) is now dealing itself with the adaptor. The application should ) register a signal with the kernel to be notified whenever a VT switch ) has been requested.) Maybe someone want to port linux's svgalib126.tar.gz to FreeBSD ? Many linux stuffs which running on VTs use this library.... -- 李 建 達 (Adonis) 交大資工 Mail: jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw