Reading the handbook from console

[Polytropon]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:58:35 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Oh, _that_ is this functionality? I've in fact tried and
seen this working, I think... with the "logo" saver showing
Beastie sliding across the screen, and with the "warp" saver.

I assume it's the same functionality behind the option to
show a spash screen when the system is booting (after the
kernel has been loaded).




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