framebuffer fro freebsd

[Lewis Thompson]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Rahul Sawarkar <torahuls at vsnl.com> writes:
> > is there a framebuffer port for freebsd?
> >   i want to run my console in 1024x768.
> 
> Why would you want a framebuffer for that?
> Do you have frame grabber hardware or something?
> 
> If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the 
> text console, vidcontrol(1) can do that, but I don't
> understand the connection to a frame buffer...

Is it just me or does vidcontrol look ugly when compared to Linux's
console framebuffer that allows high-resolution console displays?

-lewiz.

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