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Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> What do you mean by "enable console graphics"?
>> Is this something different than x11?
> 
> The is a famous library, svgalib, a "low level console graphics
> library" which can - under _very_ specific circumstances - display
> graphics "on" the text mode console. There are few browsers,
> image viewers and even media players that can use this interface
> to display "console graphics" while _not_ needing X.
> 
> However, this only works for local displays. As soon as there
> is a serial or SSH connection involved, it doesn't work anymore.
> 
> I've actually never seen this working on FreeBSD; maybe it's
> just a Linuxism. Maybe it's just because I've never tried. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
I use links/svgalib on my host without problems,
the worst I can say is the mouse pointer is jumpy.
So console graphics = any thing that uses this single svgalib.
I understand now.