[fpc-pascal]Contributing to FPC.

Aitor SantamarĂ­a aitor.sm at wanadoo.es
Tue Sep 10 11:15:04 CEST 2002


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>> Under Linux, how does GRAPH unit do? Does it open XFree or the like?
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> No, it uses (s)vgalib.
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>> If the answer is NO, what happens if I start with a FrameBuffer 
>> device loaded, can I still draw things in such case?
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> Yes, but I'm not sure whether it works from within xfree, you may have 
> to start it on another console. Also, for svgalib programs you need 
> root access in most cases (the latest versions may have circumvented 
> this in some way). 

The latest versions of svgalib? or of GRAPH unit? (I haven't used 
svgalib, at least conciously).

Aitor






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