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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:02:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: using vgl
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912262259350.76167-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991225123201.A6180@futuresouth.com>

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On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Tim Tsai wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:07:50PM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > 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?

See the sources for libvgl. You can do it easily by changing jus a few
lines - the ioctl"s need to be executed on /dev/console instead of curent
vty.

Andrzej Bialecki

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