Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:01:34 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Nakal <nakal@web.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal Message-ID: <20030616190134.GO73854@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> References: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de>
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Nakal wrote this message on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 20:15 +0200:
> recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been
> looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the
> terminal. I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here,
> if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my
> applications from Linux-framebuffer to FreeBSD, but I am also thinking
> about making a graphical installer for FreeBSD (eye-candy is always
> nice to attract new users).
svgalib in ports works quite well for this. It even gives you a nice
linear fb on some vga cards.
There used to be an ioctl that would let you switch banks on the VGA
card, but I can't seem to find it right now.
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