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Re: VNC patches to XFree
- To: "Tom A. D. Riley" <tadr@doe.carleton.ca>, <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: VNC patches to XFree
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:37:00 -0400
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- References: <199906220212.WAA04800@dax.carleton.ca>
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom A. D. Riley <tadr@doe.carleton.ca>
To: <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 10:12 PM
Subject: VNC patches to XFree
> has any one had a look at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
> There are GPL'ed patches to the XFree code which allow use of
> a remote frame buffer. May be very handy as a way to avoid
> getting drivers for every video card.
>
Thanks for info.
Once we have DirectX libs for xfree, the server should run independt of
video driver. Colin is looking into writing a Direct/DirectInput taget for
GGI.
GGI had already been incoporated into xfree code by us.
Regards
Suhaib