From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 10:16:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29178 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29163 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21012; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:14:32 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:14:32 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of syscons Message-ID: <19981230201432.A6797@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <199812221331.WAA09326@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199812221331.WAA09326@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:31:07PM +0900 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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