Re: [AD] removing VBE/AF support

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

> Peter Wang wrote:
>
> > I think it's time to remove this driver, at the very least on Linux.
>
>
> Any particular reason? The way I see these things, you only need to 
> remove them if they're a) causing problems or b) stunting the growth 
> of the rest of the lib. In the case of the DirectX mixer driver, it 
> was doing both.. but AFAIK VBE/AF does neither. 


In Linux it's getting compiled into the library by default, and nobody 
uses it so it's just bloat.  We could just disable it by default, too.

> > I
>
> > very much doubt that any DOS users use it either.  What do you think?
>
>
> How does VBE/AF compare against VESA 2 or 3? SciTech Software released 
> their Display Doctor suite for "free" (you can download it and they 
> give you a free registration code), and that's supposed to give you a 
> VBE/AF driver for your card if it's available, as well as VESA 3 
> support. Plus, even though it's all-but-dead, FreeBE/AF is still 
> there, and since it's open source one could probably easilly create 
> drivers for Radeon or Geforce cards using XFree-drm as a base. 


You're pretty optimistic if you think that's going to happen, mate!  Ok, 
let's leave it for DOS.  I'd like to hear reports of people actually 
using it with SDD.

Peter