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A patch is available for download made against FreeBSD 8.0-RC1

The web site infrastructure has been synchronized with GGI's. Also, there has been some re-structuring and modifications made to the colouring, layout & such.

A new www▸ module in CVS has been created to keep track of the build infrastructure used to maintain this site.

FreeBSD development is currently being carried out in http://kgi.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kgi/freebsd/▸

KGI alpha patch for FreeBSD-8 available [No longer available. See news items from 2009-08-31]

V1.3 of Brian S. Julin's Open Source Graphic Systems

You may get the logs of the last KGI IRC meetings kgi-irc-20060212 and kgi-irc-20060219

Note that #kgi IRC channel▸ is now logged

See screenshots and download page for details

The proposal from Brian S. Julin for Open Source Graphic Systems

Debian package is available for the KGI-0.9 patch (against 2.4.27). See README.Debian in the package. Also kgidrv was packaged for Debian in version 0.2. Reminder, kgidrv is the new driver framework commonly used by kgi4Linux and kgi4BSD. Binary modules are distributed for kernel 2.4.27.

kernel-patch-2.4-kgi_0.9-1_i386.deb▸

kgidrv-modules-2.4.27_0.2-1_i386.deb▸

Support for current linux-2.4.25 has been added to cvs.

Nicholas Souchu is making great progress towards ports of GGI and KGI to FreeBSD. You can find more information on the kgi4BSD▸ site.

Thanks to a little trick, we managed to get www.kgi-project.org and kgi.sourceforge.net redirecting to this page. Welcome to the people who visited the old pages !

The first DDC2 success reports are in. The monitor driver now seeks the highest refresh rate available. For now, only the Radeon driver has working DDC2, somehow the Matrox driver just doesn't want to work.

A new IRC meeting has been scheduled for Saturday February 1st, 2300 hours Amsterdam / 1700 hours Calgary time. Topics of discussion:

• Bugs / shortcomings in the KGI core. KGI-0.9 is rather usable now. What is there left to fix before users can see how nice KGI is ?

  • Console ALT-F5 is linked to graphics ALTGR-F6
  • Accellerator deadlocks when switching console
  • When a console is closed, display the one that was mapped before. (If it still exists)
  • When a driver takes over a console, it should redraw.
• Driver issues that affect other drivers too. Missing resources ?
• This new homepage. Contributions please !
• Snapshots / releases. Should we release some beta stuff already ?
• AGP support. How to do it, where to start ?
• SMP support. The Big Bug is gone, now we should have lockdown mechanisms.