Drawing graphics on terminal

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at efn.org
Mon Jun 16 12:01:03 PDT 2003


Nakal wrote this message on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 20:15 +0200:
> recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been 
> looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the 
> terminal. I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here, 
> if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my 
> applications from Linux-framebuffer to FreeBSD, but I am also thinking 
> about making a graphical installer for FreeBSD (eye-candy is always 
> nice to attract new users).

svgalib in ports works quite well for this. It even gives you a nice
linear fb on some vga cards.

There used to be an ioctl that would let you switch banks on the VGA
card, but I can't seem to find it right now.

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