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32.1 Introduction

Video support is currently a three-way mishmash and it's incomplete, but it provides useful services for some popular boards.

The first way provides the XFree86 S3 driver and its normal XFree86 interface, along with a few other functions.

The second way provides the VGA portion of the well known ``Svgalib'' library for Linux.

The third way for OSKit kernels to access video (and the keyboard and mouse) is via X11 client support. Through this support OSKit kernels can interact (like any other X client) with remote machines running an X server. In the x11/client source directory we provide patches against both the stock XFree86 X11R6.3 and XConsortium X11R6.3 distributions, along with helper functions specific to the OSKit. See the README's there.



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