From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 23:39:55 +0000

Re: svgalib target

Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> Marcus writes:
> 
> >  > Ha! I must be really stupid :) I had an old kgi.so lying around in
> >  > /usr/local/lib/ggi/display/. Strange though that is tried to use it, for
> >  > I had the KGI and FBCON targets switched off.
> >
> >  Libggi checks if /dev/graphics exists, and if it does it tries
> >  the KGI target. This should probably be fixed.
> 
> I've been pondering whether init.c should have "#ifdef TARG_xyz ...
> #endif" around the attempts to load each display driver in the case of
> ggiOpen(NULL).  What do you think ?

Hmm, not really good as one of libggi's goals is that different
versions of everything should be usable together.
But the real problem in this case lies in the KGI target. Any target
should be able to load, find out that it can't be used right now,
and unload without causing trouble.

//Marcus
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