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Release of svgalib 1.2.9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Dec 12 01:43:42 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 01:26:14 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
Subject: Release of svgalib 1.2.9
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This is to announce the release of svgalib 1.2.9. 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:
Oak-87 should work again, the 16 color high rez modes have color problems,
they never worked for any Oak card and noone knows a fix. (*sigh*)
New driver (right now only 256 color SVGA modes) for cards based on the
ALI2301 chip
Allow to set modetiming ala Xconfig from the config file for all drivers
using timing.c (S3, Cirrus, Ark). This does not affect drivers that could do
that before (w/o timing.c)
Support for S3 with Sierra SC15025 ramdac. Some other S3 fixes.
A few ELF/DLL related fixes to Mach32 and Makefiles,
Note 1: Mach32 could segfault under ELF depending on your setup (gcc version,
lib, outside temperature..) A common denominator seems to be gcc-2.7.0.
However, Scott Snyder provided a fix, s.t. this version should cure it. (Mea
culpa, probably I had to circumvent some kernel misfeature at the time I
coded that line).
Note 2: A bug in gl_fillscreen under ELF and Cirrus was reported. I'm neither
able to reproduce nor to fix it. If you are interested find info in the
BUGS_NOT_FOUND file within the released package.
Note 3: Mach64 is not yet supported. However, I got report that 640x480x256
works already. Unfortunately it still crashes with the plain VGA modes, thus
it was not yet included. Mach64 owners hold on, light is near.
Note 4: I'm away during next week (12/9 til 12/15). I should be able to read my
email (and esp. it shouldn't get lost) but might not be able to follow all
maillists. In case you want to contact me in that time email me directly and
give me time to answer and/or get back to my home system and files on it.
Enjoy,
Michael.
(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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Title: svgalib
Version: 1.29
Entered-date: 06DEZ95
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
438K svgalib-1.2.9.tar.gz
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/libs
438K svgalib-1.2.9.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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