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svgalib version 1.2.8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Oct 16 14:50:28 1995
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 22:01:44 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
Subject: svgalib version 1.2.8
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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This is to announce the release of svgalib 1.2.8. It has been uploaded to
the incoming dirs of sunsite and tsx and will appear in the appropriate dirs
(see LSM below) and on their mirrors after a (hopefully) short delay.
Since I found the changelog a bit too long let me list just a few highlights
here:
Greatly enhanced S3 support, no font smear, high/true-color, but alas: only
for few chipsets; a (short) cite from the README:
The driver is not complete, but should work on a number of cards/RAMDACs, and
640x480x256 should work on most card. The best support is for a 801/805 with
AT&T20C490-compatible RAMDAC, and S3-864 + SDAC. All 256/32K/64K/16M works
for them (within the bounds of video memory & ramdac restrictions).
The chip level code should work with the 964/868/968, but most likely the card
they come on would use an unsupported ramdac/clock chip.
Complete new hierarchy of makefiles. Compiles AND installs now out of the box
for ELF (Just change a flag in one config file)
WARNING: However, you must now use GNU-make to compile/install svgalib
(I doubt/hope that this is a problem for anyone)
IMPORTANT: The oak driver was fixed to support Oak-67 again. Oak-87 support
might have been damaged. If you experience problems contact me. If not, drop
me a short success message as well.
No more crashes at <vc-switch>-Enter in raw keyboard mode; vga_safety_fork()
overhauled. If it still doesn't work for you contact me, I'll make it a dummy
in future releases then; All sources cleaned up and reformatted.
Enjoy,
Michael.
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Title: svgalib
Version: 1.28
Entered-date: 07OCT95
Description: Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA
modes in a console. It is not intended as an alternative
to X for apps, but rather a set of tools for things like
VGA games, image viewing in modes that X cannot support, etc.
Keywords: graphics, VGA, SVGA, library
Author: hhanemaa@cs.ruu.nl (Harm Hanemaayer) et al.
Maintained-by: Temporarily maintained by eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de (Michael
Weller)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/libs/graphics
425K svgalib-1.2.8.tar.gz
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/libs
425K svgalib-1.2.8.tar.gz
Platforms: Linux/Intel (too many vgacards to list here); Linux/Alpha (up
to now only #9 GXE PCI KNOWN to work, other cards may/should
work.
Copying-policy: Freely distributable.
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(eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de or eowmob@pollux.exp-math.uni-essen.de
Please do not use my vm or de0hrz1a accounts anymore. In case of real
problems reaching me try mat42b@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de instead.)
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