From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 19:34:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C5A16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:34:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F71743D1D for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:34:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rodrigc@crodrigues.org) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com ([66.31.45.197]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004021203345101500c6nhne>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:34:51 +0000 Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.crodrigues.org [127.0.0.1])i1C3Z1hd061652; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:35:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc@h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost)i1C3Z1Xu061651; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:35:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:35:01 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues To: James Lehman Message-ID: <20040212033501.GA61512@crodrigues.org> References: <000e01c3f0f7$a765c980$0500a8c0@bug> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000e01c3f0f7$a765c980$0500a8c0@bug> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: frame buffer video in FreeBSD ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 03:34:52 -0000 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:34:55PM -0500, James Lehman wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Like many other people new to FreeBSD, > I come from many years of experience with Linux. > > In Linux we can build the kernel to provide a frame buffer device(s) > /dev/fb0 fb1, fb2... > > Is there anything like this in FreeBSD? You might want to ask Nicholas Souch about the status of KGI4BSD: http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD That's the closest thing I can think of. -- Craig Rodrigues http://crodrigues.org rodrigc@crodrigues.org