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On Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:06 AM, Alex Holden [SMTP:alex@linuxhacker.org] wrote:
> On 20 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >    How close are the variable bit width drivers to being usable (I'm assuming
> >    they're the bogl-tcfb and bogl-pcfb drivers)?
> > They don't work now?  I haven't tested them (they're by dhd@debian.org
> > not me), but I can now that I have matroxfb set up on my main machine.
> 
> I hadn't tried them yet; I somehow got the idea that they were a work in
> progress. I'll have a go with them this afternoon.
> 


The addition of a single readpixel entry point should allow all the work
that's been done with the bogl drivers to be brought in to the nanoX project.

In addition, the text draw routine needs to subtract the font->height
from the y value before displaying, if we want X-like semantics.


Greg

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