From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 29 6:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F81137B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A523543EB2 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@unixdaemons.com) Received: from unixdaemons.com (pc3-nfds1-5-cust242.nott-b.cable.ntl.com [80.5.196.242]) (authenticated bits=0) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.6/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBTEFKsB056266; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:15:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E0F032F.7020702@unixdaemons.com> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:14:07 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Emiel Kollof , Mayuresh Kathe Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer howto? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > Actually I suggested on private email to use GGI. GGI > can work on top of VGL or Linux's framebuffer, and > when KGI becomes available it will work fine. Hmm, someone said earlier on in this thread, that FreeBSD does not have a framebuffer device; if so: 1) What is the FB_INSTALL_CDEV kernel option for? 2) What is the purpose of ? Clarification will be appreciated. Cheers. -- Hiten Pandya http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message