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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!cbgw2.lucent.com!nntphub.cb.lucent.com!ssbunews.ih.lucent.com!news From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Date: 21 May 1997 10:10:54 +0200 Organization: Lucent Technologies, Indian Hill Lines: 19 Sender: plm@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com Message-ID: <y7z2071w8hd.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <5lm7v4$fpi$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <87enb5xkd6.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <EAGK5D.4BH@nonexistent.com> <5ltdud$ni@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41345 >> On 21 May 1997 00:00:13 GMT, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) said: JW> le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: >> Again...is any FreeBSD hacker working on svgatext? JW> Not that i know. Linux's svgaconsole works totally differently, it JW> (IMHO) uses the BIOS. The key to svgatext is that it uses XFree code and configuration style. Indeed all those nice and fancy hires textmodes are hardware dependant, but since the driver for all different graphics boards is inherited from XFree this is not a problem. Maybe I'll have a look at it, but I don't know whether I have the time & knowledge to really do something with it. -- Peter Mutsaers | Lucent Technologies, Network Systems plm@lucent.com | Huizen, the Netherlands