Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:58:49 -0500 From: Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd@brandonfa.lk> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Graphical Terminal Environment Message-ID: <4F566C79.8030407@brandonfa.lk> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwNDtjwyFfyQGunUWGGbAK51HzThvU9TodG-Sn1a0WNRqQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwNDtjwyFfyQGunUWGGbAK51HzThvU9TodG-Sn1a0WNRqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/6/2012 2:52 PM, b. f. wrote: > Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd at brandonfa.lk> wrote: > >> I've been thinking for a while about possibly making an extremely >> lightweight environment that supports full monitor resolution, custom >> fonts, and terminals... that's about it. > You may also want to look at our system libvgl ( vgl(3) ), > ports/devel/directfb ( http://directfb.org/ ), and > ports/graphics/svgalib ( http://www.svgalib.org/ ). Someone has > mentioned wayland -- there was also an older X variant called tinyX > that is still used by some minimalistic Linux distributions, and was > loosely based on the X.org kdrive server. > > b, Thanks for all the links. I'm going to have to try some of this out. I think I am just going to end up writing a minimal NVIDIA driver that can set the video mode, resolution, and draw some lines for now. I've never actually worked with a video card before, only BIOS VGA functions and framebuffers. -Brandon
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