VNC patches to XFree

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Tue Jun 22 04:48:00 GMT 1999


----- 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



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