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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: emacs fonts
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:02:51 +0000
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, deckerben wrote:
> 
> > It may be possible to hack an Xfree layer on top of Allegro (just for the
> > SVGA/VGA facilities).
> 
> An Xlib port could use Allegro as its low-level graphics layer, but you'd
> still need to port the higher level X code.

There's a driver for XFree86 for frame-buffer devices. If you could make an
Allegro <-> frame-buffer shim, then perhaps you just use that? That's probably
quite a hairy job, though!

Bye,

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