Reading the handbook from console

[Robert Bonomi]

> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:48:01 +0100
> From: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com>
> Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console
> Cc: scotteberl at gmail.com, dteske at freebsd.org, questions at freebsd.org
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:15:23 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
> > What do you mean by "enable console graphics"?
> > Is this something different than x11?
>
> The is a famous library, svgalib, a "low level console graphics
> library" which can - under _very_ specific circumstances - display
> graphics "on" the text mode console. There are few browsers,
> image viewers and even media players that can use this interface
> to display "console graphics" while _not_ needing X.
>
> However, this only works for local displays. As soon as there
> is a serial or SSH connection involved, it doesn't work anymore.
>
> I've actually never seen this working on FreeBSD; maybe it's
> just a Linuxism. Maybe it's just because I've never tried. :-)
>

Works fine on FreeBSD  -- graphics-mode screen-savers (like 'fire')
use it.