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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
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>> 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.
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Peter Mutsaers | Lucent Technologies, Network Systems
plm@lucent.com | Huizen, the Netherlands