On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:43:48 +0000, Nicholas Ruddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I can say Shawn is I looked into the same ideas you have a few > months back and didn't really come up with much. Con2fb seems to have > very little information out on it and dfbterm I haven't tried. If you do > come up with solutions to boot up screens and terminals share it with > the list. I'd be very interested. > > Nick > > Shawn Dowler wrote: > > >I had read up a bit on that. I was wondering how it might work > >without a windowing system. It would also be nice to do something > >with the boot messages, but that's probably not possible to see them > >with the current setup I have. > > > >I read about con2fb, but am not sure if that would be an option in my case. > > > > > >On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:21:29 +0100, Magnus Einarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > >>You can probably use the DirectFB terminal program dfbterm but i have > >>not tested it yet. > >> > >>/Magnus > >> > >>Shawn Dowler wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I've got a nice setup with Freevo running using a Matrox G450 and > >>>DirectFB. It's only got a TV hooked up to it so any changes I need to > >>>do or anything fancy I need to ssh in from another computer on my > >>>network. I was wondering what my options are for a working Terminal > >>>display in such a situation. Ideally I'd like to add an option using > >>>"Generic" to start this terminal from within freevo itself, but that > >>>might be bad if I want to tinker with freevo, maybe I could have the > >>>terminal start behind freevo and always be there if I exit freevo? > >>> > >>>What are your suggestions? I know what I'm doing with Linux, I just > >>>wanted some ideas from you guys before I started experimenting. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>Shawn Dowler > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >>The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > >>Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > >>It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Freevo-users mailing list > >>Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users >
I thought this looked rather interesting, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. Looks promising though. This way you could possibly even get startup messages! http://directory.fsf.org/gui/quingy.html Does anyone know anything about this project? Has anyone ever tried this? -- Want free stuff? Find out how to get it: - - - - - http://dowler.homelinux.org - - - - - "Hey Fat Mike, did you eat all the food on the ISS?" ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
