From: Andre Ulrich <andre.u@writeme.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:11:16 +0200

Re: XGGI 1.6.0

 I've got some problems to compile libggi-2.0b2 with aa. 
 
 make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/lib/libggi-2.0b2/display/aa'
 /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include     -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -g -Wall -c color.c
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -g -Wall -c  -fPIC -DPIC color.c -o color.lo
 In file included from color.c:29:
 ../../include/ggi/display/aa.h:31: aalib.h: No such file or directory
 make[3]: *** [color.lo] Error 1
 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/libggi-2.0b2/display/aa'
 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/libggi-2.0b2/display'
 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/libggi-2.0b2'
 make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2         
 
 But when I disable it (I think I don't need this) it compiles well.
 
 Then I get another problem with XGGI. It doesn't start and break with these
 message.
 
 LibGG: unable to open lib: /usr/local/lib/ggi/default/fbdev/kgi/genkgi.so
 ..
 ..
 
 Because I can't enable generic kgi with ./configure --enable-kgi  , I get the
 Degas V 990403 and compile kgi and install it. because this doesn't change
 anything I tried to compile kgi in the degas/lib/libggi/default/kgi/ directory.
 This doesn't function because kgi.h wasn't in the include directory. I copied
 the kgi directory from degas/kgicon/include/ to degas/lib/libggi/include/ dir
 and now it compiles.

> As most GGI apps, XGGI usually uses the GGI_AUTO-setting, which can be
> overridden with GGI_DEFMODE="1024x768[C24/32]" for example.

I've got the same problems with XGGI. I tried kgicon for XGGI and get errors
when I set other modes. Sometimes there are two displays and sometimes it
LibGG can't set the mode. The README.Config says:

  Note under the VGA driver, modes bigger than 320x200 do not currently work 
  in 8-bit color, and there is no VGA-specific 4-bit renderer. 

So, should't I use XGGI with kgicon?  Which modes can be set for my  
Millenium I ?  

What about the FB Howto which says:
Anyway, if you look in degas/, you will see a directory named 'kgicon'. Change
to that directory and type 'su -c "make install"'. This will create a symlink
to the kgicon/include/ directory from /usr/src/linux/include/kgi. If you do not
have your kernel sources in /usr/src/linux, you will need to make the symlink
by hand.

It doesn't function, but do I need this?

Thanks for your help.    
Andre Ulrich