#34 Anything other than svgalib support?

[Simon White]

svgalib appears to be dead, distributions are nolonger
shipping it and it is along time since is has had an
update. Would it be better to consider other things
like the:

framebuffer (possibly directfb)
opengl
sdl

These would provide the graphical support bits you need
and dropping svgalib + old chipset support? All those
libraries have to deal video chipset issues and all are
kept upto.

NOTE This is only reffering to the non x version of dosemu.

[Stas Sergeev]

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Note that the svgalib and the svgalib's support in dosemu is
currently broken. You must not even try to enable it, or you
can get a very unstable dosemu.

svgalib appears to be dead
I invested a lot of work into svgalib something like half a year
ago, I fixed everything (actually making VESA to work for all
cards, and much more), resurrected the dosemu support for it,
wrote a VESA driver for dosemu etc. All in vain - still no
svgalib
release with my fixes:(
dosemu code in CVS is already rewritten to not require the
svgalib for VESA. svgalib support will most likely be dropped
from dosemu entirely soon.

framebuffer (possibly directfb)
No need - the new VESA driver can break out of an FB mode,
and will restore it when dosemu terminates.

sdl
Already in CVS.

These would provide the graphical support bits you need
and dropping svgalib + old chipset support?
We simply took the necessary code from svgalib and wrote
the vesa driver around it. That suits the 99% of needs.