Drawing graphics on terminal

[Raunchy McSmutbag]

if you wanna try something nice mmap() /dev/mem and write to VGA memory =D


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>Hi,
>
>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).
>
>Thanks,
>Martin
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