From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 29 7:34: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4221D37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:34:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F263143EA9 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 07:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 31664 invoked by uid 0); 29 Dec 2002 15:34:04 -0000 Received: from cvpn017.gwdg.de (HELO gmx.net) (134.76.22.17) by mail.gmx.net (mp005-rz3) with SMTP; 29 Dec 2002 15:34:04 -0000 Message-ID: <3E0F15ED.9070301@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:34:05 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hiten Pandya Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Emiel Kollof , Mayuresh Kathe , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Framebuffer howto? References: <3E0F032F.7020702@unixdaemons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > > Actually I suggested on private email to use GGI. GGI > > can work on top of VGL or Linux's framebuffer, and > > when KGI becomes available it will work fine. > > Hmm, someone said earlier on in this thread, that FreeBSD does not have > a framebuffer device; if so: > > 1) What is the FB_INSTALL_CDEV kernel option for? > 2) What is the purpose of ? > > Clarification will be appreciated. > Cheers. Well as far as I can see the text console is considered as kind of a frame buffer. Surely not what quite what you are looking for. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message