From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 25 10: 7:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from 1Cust106.tnt2.washington.dc.da.uu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4A514EDB; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 10:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 13:07:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Tim Tsai Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using vgl In-Reply-To: <19991225030910.A15516@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote: > I'm trying to do some work based on vgl but it appears that it is tied to > syscons and any vgl programs must be started off a console. Is there any > way I can start a vgl program from a remote terminal (but have the output > be displayed on the local VGA screen) without writing a proxy of some > kind? Err... why do you want to do that? Even if it's a big program, it should be properly written so that the frontend and backend can be separate and network-transparent, if that's to be its purpose. So the big question is, why aren't you using X11? > > I peeked at the source and there are various syscons related ioctl() calls. > Any reason that /dev/io and /dev/mem wasn't used instead? That's simple. We're not trying to move to making things MORE platform- specific. > > Thanks! > > Tim -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message