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Re: Things I would like to see E/L
On Fri, 5 May 1995, John Holbrey wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 1995, Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu wrote:
> ....things deleted.....
> > be too big of a deal. How beneficial would a SVGA lib version be, though?
> > I've been very unimpressed by SVGAlib so far, I may have an old version,
> > but it won't run in anything but 320x240.
>
> You certainly have an old SVGAlib (or maybe your videocard...:-), SVGAlib
> can cope with much higher resolutions, I keep getting problems 'cos it
> knows my card can run 1024xwhatever, unfortunately my monitor can't.
Check out the sample /usr/local/lib/libvga.config file which comes with
the recent versions of SVGAlib. There is a monitor type option to choose
the maximum frequency your monitor supports (mine is standard
non-interlaced SVGA, max. 48.3 kHz, which corresponds to "M4" in SVGAlib,
yours might be less)... Also, SVGAlib only supports a small number of
chipsets, compared to X, so that's another disadvantage.
> A SVGAlib executor would be a big deal, if nothing else you would gain
> back 4+Meg of memory that X take up.
Not for me, I use X for all sorts of stuff... Still an SVGAlib version,
although not a high priority, would be nifty for the speed boost.
> >
> > I think everyone wants to see sound. :-)
>
> yes!
Me too! Me too!
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