From: Marcus Sundberg <e94_msu@elixir.e.kth.se>
  To  : jbi130@mail.usask.ca
  Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:56:08 +0200

Re: libGGI on OpenBSD

> While running any of the demos (and even the simplest program I could
> right by looking at demo to get a window on the screen) I end up with
> this error.
>
> jason@foo [~/ggi-cvs/degas/lib/libggi/demos] $ ./demo
> ./demo: unable to open default visual, exiting.
> 
> I have done a ktrace and it seems to be opening X.so after trying to
> open kgi.so and svgalib.so which are non-existant.
> 
> Any info on this that could help me.  I have read all the docs and
> couldn't find or missed anything referring to this.

Could you please "export LIBGGI_DEBUG=255", run the demo and
post the output. It should give some clues about what goes 
wrong.

> BTW:  My reason for wanting GGI is to develop a game using 2d graphics,
> no fast action but be as portable across *nix machines (of the 3 of us
> working on this, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux) and GGI seems like it does what
> we want maybe easier than Xlib, am I wrong?

No, you're perfectly right.
Libggi is simpler to use than both SVGAlib and X, and also has very
close to zero overhead when running on those targets.

//Marcus