From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Oct 10 13:42:00 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E6DE322FA for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:42:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8443B82CF4 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:41:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB12209F9 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:41:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:41:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=IIlR9V2lLiKyz7+tzpLmvhD6TstfzYae2dZQAfTXn ag=; b=jCN1P+V2Be8w/a6/3NA0jCwIBZG82hvr4SYvSRwEPzfPLN8GUWKXAfGai 61mncxQjZ85OyxHeLzMDrV/wlFf8LfE5eSYuPnd4AIZBpbls3bTuCQ+rjXU27Gym tZYIoiQNuo19aEpIxw4Stey/O1dS2K1dZkFE/L2jCGB4Kb5CiRqut962YBSr54wx 1v4JCEVN3LjJ9EEdRDZAgC7xaHL4cOdMl8ytmL/sVraqEAlkaNOg6nZaPGWsPgMH LFMt0/Cs+A5HJ+zynPcZuKX+yvomW94v4gSNlETIgAFOjKEZWCz9OrOMDwiopR4b jR+jJ5vQMJj4/+AQESUiAZ2AVIFAw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=IIlR9V2lLiKyz7+tzp LmvhD6TstfzYae2dZQAfTXnag=; b=IVlNISPxpg4m6JCdw6XnWZRGadaBdHEYg8 LPUxH+89dqCyZUmmPUFAvY48s52PGdP8QfM+xgkrxhu+FhZ+l6pMoMmPxNEqmNy3 XOaEPtXBElVOdVUr8T125hLzLYs6/dlwv8WW4n6p7OWt3oD4yjvIT141WXp2iH8i wMPhuXwPYKTV+YtVWJ8nyKlFqAEzp0V0hHkrHj2p2ocgLVKTZfRmWK5gVokHv26S vxhcpmKtJjRWZi+QGloddWQebXuRr4guJ5yT04SDrF4rY+YmNZ/tRWQgwWxFCnYr QFzPGptKV0hRb7wCuW3N88fG1PrY38X8XEnbkoqY2mbqoIRafmqA== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: qsooLBPHf6RWTTpY6SKgeSvsOPBCIIJiF9d3R/ms1d2D 1507642912 Received: from acer.zyxst.net (parsley.growveg.org [82.70.91.97]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 18503247DD for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:41:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:41:50 +0100 From: tech-lists To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console-only freebsd Message-ID: <20171010134149.GB70456@acer.zyxst.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20171007142019.GA19356@v007.zyxst.net> <3849a428c5f41c728effa2f85510c26e@ultimatedns.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3849a428c5f41c728effa2f85510c26e@ultimatedns.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:42:00 -0000 On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:58:12AM -0700, Chris H wrote: >You might also find this article by Warren Block of value: > >http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/hiresconsole.html interesting, I guess that's another way of looking at it. Bear in mind though that the cpu really is low powered. On top of that, it's a netbook so keeping power consumption low is important In the meantime I've found that links2 might do what I want as it supports text and graphics in svga/framebuffer. thanks for the suggestion -- J.