From: Jason McMullan <jmcc@ontv.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: 7 Aug 1998 13:57:25 GMT

Re: vga kgicon problem summary

Brian Julin <bri@forcade.calyx.net> wrote with confidence:
> 
> 2) The real fix is to allow the kgi driver to offer a scroller via
> kgi_text_operations and write a framebuffer driver that uses the kgi 
> scroller's framebuffer operations.  What I'm suggesting is a move to 
> the Degas drivers, as this also I believe will make the mode.fb trouble
> go away; they use virtual addresses in the extended mode.fb.* struct.  The
> only problem here is a few of them don't have complete text-->dpp/bpp
> fixes, but a few of us had that fixed in our own private
> sources already.
>

   Please note that that scroller subsystem is a big part of GGI
Console. We need to chat with Steffen (#kgi channel on irc.ggi-project.org?) 
about where is code is and how to integrate the scroller work
without having to drag in all of GGI Console.

   BTW: I think the GGI Console scroller is the most mature part of 
GGI Console. It would definately be worth it to pull into kgicon.

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