From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 12:01:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B845537B401 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cyberonic.com (mail.cyberonic.com [4.17.179.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2B0243FAF for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (node-40244c0a.sfo.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.76.10]) by mail.cyberonic.com (8.12.8/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h5GJQaMo018713; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:26:37 -0400 Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.9/8.11.6) id h5GJ1Y3a011550; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:01:34 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Nakal Message-ID: <20030616190134.GO73854@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Nakal , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:01:03 -0000 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. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."