Subject: Re: Anyone working on VS2000 sm X support?
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/16/1998 21:23:11
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Boris Gjenero wrote:

> I'm just wondering... is anybody working on X support for the standard
> VS2000 monochrome frame buffer?  I'm thinking of doing some work
> myself.  It shouldn't be hard, and it should certainly be less work than
> QDSS.  Had the driver been based on the QVSS driver (qv.c) it would have
> been more-or less trivial.
> 
> Of course, things just can't be that simple...  The driver uses wscons,
> so if I want to get to work on it I must deal with wscons too.  Now I'm
> wondering:

> - Is there sufficient interrest in this for me to take on the task?

I'm positive that there's a great deal of interest on getting X running
for the older workstations.  I think their may be more people running
VS3100's at this stage than VS2000's, but I imagine that having X for
anything would be a boon for NetBSD/vax. 

-brian.
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