From: john mccutchan <johnm@itactics.itactics.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:48:12 -0400

Re: GGI compilation error

You should have a look inside your kernel header files for ggi_visual_t i
believe, and i found the documentation on libggi and libgii more then helpfull
perhaps you should go back and read over them more carefully ?

good luck

john

On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:15:46PM +0200, talos wrote:
> Hi, I might be mailng to the wring list but look at this letter kindly.
> So, I thought I'd give GGI a shot since it seems to be a good idea with
> a "Grafic wrapper" for all kinds of libs (svgalib, X etc...)
> Anyway I try to compile a simple test program that does nothing more
> than go into a screen mode and exit.
> But (becouse there is no "Programmers Guide"???) it don't quite work.
> I tried using this ggiSetGraphMode(); but since I have no idea of what
> ggi_visual_t holds I can't realy send any
> parameters. I looked in all doc:s on your homepage and in the
> /usr/man/man3 and even done a cat /usr/include/ggi/* |grep ggi_visual_t.
> 
> But with no luck.
> Maybe I have some kind of dumb version or something. I run debian 2.0
> and have used Dselect to download the latest ggi libs and all the devel
> stuff.
> Please somebody help me here. Is it supposed to take 2 days to figure
> out howto go into a gfx mode?
> Back to SVGALIB?
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
>                                                 // talos / AINT
>                                                    talos@algonet.se
>