From: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rgks9x1.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrmiq0qxKxrEWVAwTa5RjNG_Tq-9JATAA7qR2=cva_4+w@mail.gmail.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:39:13 -0700")
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> - was there any discussion of alternatives to X?
>>
>
> Discussions yes. But not much more than talk.
>
> There were vgalib apps that ran graphics on the console, but I never used
> them.
I have some first hand experience with svgalib programs around 1999.
Back then I didn't have enough disk space to install X11 and TeX at
the same time, so I mostly worked on the 80x25 console and used
dvisvga as a previewer, which ran MetaFont in the background and then
rendered a quite readable preview of your DVI file.
I also remember using zgv, an image display program that used svgalib.
The fractal renderer XaoS also could do svgalib.
IIRC, my screen could only display 1024x768, not 1280x1024.
AFAIU, svgalib directly poked the graphics card memory on x86, so all
programs using it had to be SUID to allow this. There was no
kernel-provided framebuffer, this came a bit later (2.1.109 says
Wikipedia; I used kernel 2.0.36 back then), but by then I had switched
to X11 already.
hth,
--
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org/
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-25 21:31 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-25 22:49 ` [TUHS] " Dan Cross
2023-02-26 1:27 ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-26 0:39 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 1:14 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-02-26 15:50 ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2023-02-26 16:13 ` Larry McVoy
2023-02-26 16:23 ` Leah Neukirchen
2023-02-26 16:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 16:39 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 19:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-27 0:16 ` Adam Thornton
2023-02-27 10:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-02-26 2:21 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-27 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-27 18:32 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 2:27 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 2:30 ` Will Senn
2023-02-26 2:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-02-26 3:28 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-26 3:45 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-26 5:24 ` John Cowan
2023-02-26 5:36 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-02-28 3:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-27 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-02-27 17:59 ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2023-02-27 18:07 ` Warner Losh
2023-02-27 20:04 ` [TUHS] Generational development [was Re: Re: Early GUI on Linux] arnold
2023-02-27 20:08 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 20:22 ` arnold
2023-02-27 20:46 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-27 21:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-28 7:59 ` arnold
2023-02-28 15:28 ` Clem Cole
[not found] ` <CAP2nic1STmWn5YTrnvFbexwwfYWT=pD28gXpVS1CVSfOOwxx7g@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-28 15:50 ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Adam Thornton
2023-02-27 20:50 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 20:55 ` Bakul Shah
2023-02-27 21:01 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-27 21:15 ` Chet Ramey
2023-02-27 21:22 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-27 20:30 ` [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux Dan Cross
2023-02-28 1:10 ` Alexis
2023-02-28 1:27 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-01 16:39 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-03-01 16:54 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-01 17:22 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-03-01 17:52 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-02 1:17 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-02 4:28 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-02 6:46 ` [TUHS] X timeline Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-01 18:59 ` [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-02 7:27 ` arnold
2023-02-28 1:08 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-28 1:15 ` Clem Cole
2023-02-27 20:56 ` Will Senn
2023-02-27 22:14 ` Andru Luvisi
2023-02-27 22:31 ` David Arnold
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