Robert Bonomi wrote:
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100
From: Polytropon <free...@edvax.de>
To: Fbsd8 <fb...@a1poweruser.com>
Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console
Cc: scotteb...@gmail.com, dte...@freebsd.org, questi...@freebsd.org
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.
How do you activate graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire')?
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