From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 12:41:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557FF3C5 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:41:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vereshagin.org) Received: from mx1.skyriver.ru (ns1.skyriver.ru [89.108.118.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A13EFCB for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (server01.daniel-steuer.de [83.169.41.106]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE02E5B49 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:41:16 +0400 (MSK) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:41:06 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console Message-ID: <20130114124004.GA10285@external.screwed.box> References: <4D.FE.27613.276E3F05@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D.FE.27613.276E3F05@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> Organization: ' X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a; ^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:41:28 -0000 Hello. TM> On my now-older computer (from July 2001, 256 MB RAM), svgalib ran on FreeBSD but was very crash-prone. TM> TM> svgalib in Linux was erratic and caused color distortions when switching to an X window. TM> TM> So I decided I wanted no part of svgalib on the new computer, FreeBSD or Linux. TM> TM> Use ASCII art or framebuffer? If you're about to ascii then I'd say that 'svgatextmode' was great when I used linux. And, I don't believe the 'frame buffer' stuff is usable in freebsd. Thank you. -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: 1754B9C1