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From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
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Cc: Dale DuRose <mafiageek@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD VGA  Framebuffer
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:51, Dale DuRose wrote:
> Hi
Hello

> I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer?
> and how to use it?
You could look into KGI:
http://kgi-wip.sourceforge.net/
http://people.freebsd.org/~nsouch/kgi4BSD/

There is patch set around for RELENG_6 from a few months ago.
You have to build a new kernel with sources, setup LibGGI and give it ago.

> Cheers
>
>
> ~ Dale
-Alastair