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Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> 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.
> 
How do you activate graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire')?