> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100 > From: Polytropon <[email protected]> > To: Fbsd8 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: > > What do you mean by "enable console graphics"? > > Is this something different than x11? > > The is a famous library, svgalib, a "low level console graphics > library" which can - under _very_ specific circumstances - display > graphics "on" the text mode console. There are few browsers, > image viewers and even media players that can use this interface > to display "console graphics" while _not_ needing X. > > However, this only works for local displays. As soon as there > is a serial or SSH connection involved, it doesn't work anymore. > > I've actually never seen this working on FreeBSD; maybe it's > just a Linuxism. Maybe it's just because I've never tried. :-) >
Works fine on FreeBSD -- graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire') use it. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
