Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:58:35 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@edvax.de Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console Message-ID: <201301132258.r0DMwZNi010880@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <20130113214801.3ce70c97.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100 > From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> > To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> > Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console > Cc: scotteberl@gmail.com, dteske@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org > > 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. :-) > Works fine on FreeBSD -- graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire') use it.
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