On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:02:30AM -0800, Andy Valencia wrote:
> I'm still looking for a good graphics library to control video hardware.
svgalib and LinuxGGI seem the two most appropriate.
www.ggi-project.org
If you can make GGI work, it would have many advantages, including:
- it supports svgalib emulation
- there is an X-GGI port of X-Windows to GGI
- it supports more advanced hardware acceleration features
such as hardware accelerated 2d blits
- It has a "proper" video driver model
I looked into it a while back and thought that the kernel portion of
LinuxGGI would fit nicely into a VSTa server. (it basically arbitrates
access to the video hardware so applications don't need root/sys.sys
access to control the screen)
The biggest drawback of GGI (IMO) is that it's not part of the Linux
mainstream yet.
-- David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske_at_chat.netReceived on Fri Mar 10 15:36:35 2000
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