Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:31:58 -0500 From: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi@neosmart.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Lack of /dev/vtvga0? Message-ID: <CACcTrKdLoO3GnsDta3MqCV3LE5xipXbz2PxMMuaunVz4ic2W7g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello list, As I've mentioned in a previous message, I've been working on trying to get a proper graphics subsystem/desktop up and running under 12-CURRENT without any X components; something that was once possible a long time ago by using libvgl probably via SDL1.2 — an option that's been deprecated in SDL2 and isn't viable in all cases since libvgl doesn't support newcons/vt. I understand the limitations of the basic VGA driver (lack of hardware acceleration, current hard-coded 640x480x16 resolution) but I'm not clear on why the vt_vga driver does not make a framebuffer device available (vtvga0 is initialized, but there is no corresponding /dev/vtvga0). Isn't it possible to use vt_vga in pixel mode and directly write to the kernel console framebuffer? Any insight would be appreciated! Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies
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