Re: photo/video on tty console with the new VT/framebuffer

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:44 PM Alastair Hogge wrote:
> On 2023-05-19 11:30, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> > On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:28 PM Alastair Hogge wrote:
> >> As long as those packages support DRMKMS and does your GPU, you can to a
> >> degree. I noticed video works for mpv and games/sdl, tho, I cannot get
> >> input working. I tried the Doom 3 port, and watched movies with mpv all
> >> from the vty just a couple of months ago.
> >
> > Yeah, I have input problem too, maybe worth investigating as this is
> > really neat feature to have gfx with no Xorg :-)
>
> It is worth investigating! In a long dead ago project, the input,
> events, and displays were all integrated into the vty and mux'd from
> there. The kernel provides evdev devices now, and there is a library,
> tho I do not know how to get vt(4) to integrate with evdev, or if the
> library is the way to do it? Any other ideas?

Hey there Niclas :-) Do you know how to enable input devices
(keyboard/mouse) in the console graphical applications? Is it
possible? :-)

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