[patch]: small portable issue

1999-12-17 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! It's known, that C coders usually uses #defines instead of values directly for more portability and readability. And of course the #defines should be on the right place. So I post this patch (look in the attachment) to this ML hoping to get it in, because I think this _one_ #define is at m

KGI ... KGIcon ... GGI Console ???

1999-12-17 Thread Christian Helmuth
Hello, I spent the last 3 days reading papers, websites and mailing lists about the GGI-Project. There is still something confusing for me: What is the difference between KGIcon and KGI, if there is one? How fits GGI Console (J.McMullan's EvStack?) in the architecture? I'm working at my these

Re: KGI ... KGIcon ... GGI Console ???

1999-12-17 Thread Andreas Beck
> What is the difference between KGIcon and KGI, if there is one? The KGI driver system itself is designed to be portable across platforms (both hardware- and OS-wise). KGIcon is a wrapper around the KGI drivers that will let them look like normal fbcon drivers for the Linux kernel (hence the n

Re: DirectX and here's my attempt at a FAQ :)

1999-12-17 Thread Rubén
On 1999/Dec/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Q: What videocards support -any- acceleration? > > A: FBdev: Matrox > > 3Dfx/Banshee; 3Dfx/3 > >(but it uses the tdfx driver for this and as the 3dfx and > > tdfx switch the card into different modes they t

Re: KGI ... KGIcon ... GGI Console ???

1999-12-17 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KGI 0.0.9 - which is maintained by Steffen Seeger - is a massive intrusion > into the Linux console subsystem which sets quite some things right and thus > allows to use more features of modern graphics cards. > > It will need some updating of the drive

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-17 Thread Marcus Sundberg
Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW: Heretic has a -mode parameter that should change resolution, however it > doesn't seem to work right in my outdated copy. Hmm, it should work, but it have some limitations - here's my Changelog entry: * Initial support for higher resolutions (autom

heretic & new light on old problem. (was Re: Unidentified subject!)

1999-12-17 Thread Firstname Lastname
>Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > BTW: Heretic has a -mode parameter that should change resolution, >however it > > doesn't seem to work right in my outdated copy. > >Hmm, it should work, but it have some limitations - here's my Changelog >entry: >* Initial support for higher resol