On 3/6/2012 2:52 PM, b. f. wrote: > Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd at brandonfa.lk> wrote: > >> I've been thinking for a while about possibly making an extremely >> lightweight environment that supports full monitor resolution, custom >> fonts, and terminals... that's about it. > You may also want to look at our system libvgl ( vgl(3) ), > ports/devel/directfb ( http://directfb.org/ ), and > ports/graphics/svgalib ( http://www.svgalib.org/ ). Someone has > mentioned wayland -- there was also an older X variant called tinyX > that is still used by some minimalistic Linux distributions, and was > loosely based on the X.org kdrive server. > > b, Thanks for all the links. I'm going to have to try some of this out. I think I am just going to end up writing a minimal NVIDIA driver that can set the video mode, resolution, and draw some lines for now. I've never actually worked with a video card before, only BIOS VGA functions and framebuffers.
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