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

From: Yuri <yuri_at_aetern.org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 12:29:22 UTC
Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> 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? :-)
Wayland something?