Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:14:32 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of syscons Message-ID: <19981230201432.A6797@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <199812221331.WAA09326@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:31:07PM %2B0900 References: <199812221331.WAA09326@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:31:07PM +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > I wrote some notes on the future development plan of our console > driver syscons. > > I would appriciate if you could give me some comments. I know very little about the architectural issues. I'd like to suggest a feature though -- I'd like some mechanism for userland programs to get a dump of the current screen (as text if it's a textmode screen, as an image if it isn't). I've got patches from Joel Ray Holveck against -current and -stable that do this (which I'll submit properly as soon as I've found the time to update the man pages) and some userland code that uses a new ioctl to get a copy of the current screen image, and then convert it to a GIF file. This will prove to be useful for the Doc. Proj. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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