On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:33:11 -0400 Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote
> Prompted by a recent discussion of the vt(4) console I would like to
> send this query to -stable. When posted to -current about 1.5 years
> ago it received only one private reply pointing out an example vgl(3)
> consumer. Please see the original request and let me know if you use
> vgl(3).
FWIW I ran a quick
# cd /usr/ports; find . | xargs grep vgl
Which returned quite a few entries, as well as unrelated.
In case it helps. Some of the possibly notable ones include:
/devel/sdl12
/korean/man-doc/pkg-plist:share/man/ko_KR.eucKR/man3/vgl.3.gz
/games/digger-vgl
/japanese/groff/files/mdoc.local.in:.ds str-Lb-libvgl Video Graphics
Library (libvgl, \-lvgl)
/misc/compat4x
/misc/compat5x
/misc/compat6x
/misc/compat7x
/x11/virtualgl
There were also matches in binary files; jdk, gnome(2|3), xorg, teX,
and ghostscript. But I didn't pursue it any further.
--Chris
>
> On 27 October 2014 at 11:26, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > vgl(3) is a graphics library for syscons(4) that provides some basic
> > graphics operations (e.g. some mode setting, bitmaps, boxes,
> > ellipses). Right now it does not support the newer vt(4) console.
> >
> > In order to help determine the priority of a porting effort to add
> > vt(4) support I'd like to better understand where vgl is being
used
> > now. I'd be interested in hearing about both open source software
> > using vgl as well as proprietary or internal applications. So if
> > you're using vgl I'd appreciate a follow up (in private is
fine) with
> > a brief description of your use case.