Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 13:07:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using vgl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912251305070.12671-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <19991225030910.A15516@futuresouth.com>
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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
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