From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 21:50:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D495716A4D5 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:50:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B9943D5C for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:50:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 25734 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2005 21:50:19 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Feb 2005 21:50:19 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (lyvwfg@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])j19LoJGH055207; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j19LoILV055206; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:50:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:50:18 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Martin Message-ID: <20050209215018.GQ19624@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Martin , Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD Current References: <20050208034855.D211E43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20050208040642.GA37528@xor.obsecurity.org> <1107848499.815.30.camel@klotz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1107848499.815.30.camel@klotz.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: FreeBSD Current cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Yet another sysinstall thread X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:50:22 -0000 Martin wrote this message on Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:41 +0100: > I've been trying to port one of my framebuffer-based linux applications, > but I ran into problem with VESA-support on the terminal (inconsistent? > incomplete?) and after even the simpliest VGA-based (320x200) apps > failed to execute leaving me hanging in graphics mode and panic()ing, > I gave up. This was my experience with libvgl last year. I haven't run any apps recently, but it works really easily... Just have to do stuff like install a SIGSEGV handler to restore video mode, or blidly type the vidcontrol command... Also look at svgalib... It worked great, and gives you a linear frame buffer.... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."