Re: VSTa update

[David Jeske <jeske@chat.net> writes:]

>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 problem I had was that I couldn't find any graphics hardware support in
it; it appeared to depend on the Linux kernel FB support. And *that* stuff
looked pretty deeply embedded in the kernel. To the extent that svgalib
looked much easier to adopt. Has this changed?

Andy
Received on Fri Mar 10 17:40:14 2000