Re: Yet another sysinstall thread

Am Montag, den 07.02.2005, 20:06 -0800 schrieb Kris Kennaway:

> Fine, yeah, sysinstall sucks, but writing emails proposing
> specifications for how someone else should implement a replacement
> isn't going to get that job done.  Thousands of words have been
> written on that topic over the years, but precious little code.

I've been trying to port one of my framebuffer-based linux applications,
but I ran into problem with VESA-support on the terminal (inconsistent?
incomplete?) and after even the simpliest VGA-based (320x200) apps
failed to execute leaving me hanging in graphics mode and panic()ing,
I gave up. This was my experience with libvgl last year.

When I wrote to this list last year, someone suggested to take a look
at KGI4BSD. That's of course nice, but to start programming something,
it would be nice to have the feeling that you have everything you need
in the base distribution. And btw, I don't see KGI4BSD supporting VESA
which I would prefer in the first step, because every VGA-card has got
this interface and you don't need acceleration when developing simple
applications. KGI4BSD seems to support Matrox- and ATI-only cards
which I don't have here. I'm waiting for KGI4BSD to extend the driver
support and to merge the code into -CURRENT. The people have a good
idea there, but the project is moving slowly. Unfortunatelly, I
cannot help with kernel development, because of lack of experience.
It would be nice to see more effort and more developers working at
this project.

It is a piece of work to write a small widget toolkit and when you
you run into trouble with basic things, it is no fun anymore.

Martin