From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 30 07:13:12 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B613468 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ve0-f181.google.com (mail-ve0-f181.google.com [209.85.128.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0726383 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f181.google.com with SMTP id pa12so1111266veb.26 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:13:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=JGtbSOd8EZNi2wuIahn/OuQDugQmokIEWyyNw5ur17E=; b=aMqIASoLE4XG2ykHB3BIsIEdIi3D6DG6UxmjGonEfV6Vy5HxPi4zD3rVeGurf/2+Sy /TCoCnMROT13pwM/4uUZXnnyVxX1QmNFXbCp+HIYZ+QmR3ZRAVc7W8fQJuaAJUrmOEIR GzEjKQbMDpSMlB9SKDLcg8S2s+8XbUaUhR0H2ATJOJs+W/9Dp2a4TfwezBGCNuJ/oZ78 +Jnb+a3WTVJemWcmyekQ7aZBhhFB4xIe5TSPFkV1VYxWEbs6GtQk8l94QedJX6MEf1a+ 1E+836RlT6i77oMX3t4spyWtR8pqnvF8A+eBKPt2KX6o812tCB6vf34XZvhpmxBLAsIg LyiQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.116.130 with SMTP id jw2mr3209499vdb.69.1364627590791; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.107.71 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: the Newcons Project From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:13:12 -0000 My understanding of this whole subject is limited, but bear with me... in my quest to get a "cool looking console for my desktop... I found this https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons does anyone know if someone is still actively working on the NewCons project? or is it already committed to HEAD and i just don't realize? the wiki is a bit confusing... I would VERY much be able to have a console that looked like this in FreeBSD http://wiki.gentoo.org/images/7/7c/Bootsplash.png but if my understanding is correct, we are not at this point (yet)... even if you pull the development source from here svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/ed/newcons and change the kernel config like this: #device vga # VGA video card driver #device sc device vt device vt_vga could someone with more understanding of this, be able to tell me if the Newcons project (when completed) is even going to do what i'm looking for? if so, exactly what things have to be done yet, in order for FreeBSD to have a console like Gentoo? -- Sam Fourman Jr.