the Newcons Project

[Adam Vande More]

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vidcontrol&sektion=1


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding of this whole subject is limited, but bear with me...  in
> my quest to get a "cool looking console for my desktop... I found this
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons
>
> does anyone know if someone is still actively working on the NewCons
> project? or is it already committed to HEAD and i just don't realize? the
> wiki is a bit confusing...
>
> I would VERY much be able to have a console that looked like this in
> FreeBSD
>
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/images/7/7c/Bootsplash.png
>
> but if my understanding is correct, we are not at this point (yet)... even
> if you pull the development source from here
>
> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/ed/newcons
>
> and change the kernel config like this:
>
> #device vga # VGA video card driver
> #device sc
> device vt
> device vt_vga
>
>
> could someone with more understanding of this, be able to tell me if the
> Newcons project (when completed) is even going to do what i'm looking for?
>
> if so, exactly what things have to be done yet, in order for FreeBSD to
> have a console like Gentoo?
>
>
> --
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
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Adam Vande More