>> I was not thinking that the VGA would scale arbitrarily. > My underlying concern is that regardless of how much we may wish VGA > compatibility didn't exist, not only does it have to, it will be the > first thing a "user" sees when using an open graphics based card on an > x86 system. The last thing we want it for the first impression to be > "Boy this sucks..." > > We certainly need to have a reasonable update rate in both text and > graphics VGA mode since x86 systems will use these modes during OS installs.
The other day I was helping a friend upgrade a machine from Linux to BSD. I was having trouble reading the tiny font, so he pushed a couple of buttons and the text zoomed to full screen. MUCH easier to read. So I'd say that scaling (and an easy to read font) is fairly important, FAR more important than "eye candy GUI" stuff. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
