Q: frame buffer video in FreeBSD ???

[Bryan Cassidy]

This is exactly what your looking for

http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11866&highlight=vesa

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:42:12PM -0500, James Lehman wrote:
>Hello everyone.
>
>Like many other people new to FreeBSD,
>I come from many years of experience with Linux.
>
>In Linux we can build the kernel to provide a frame buffer device(s)
>/dev/fb0    fb1, fb2...
>
>This is basically a file descriptor that actually refers to
>the memory on the video card.
>
>Using ioctl system calls to this descriptor gets and sets
>resolution and color depth, etc.
>
>I've written a fairly comprehensive API in C called ezfb.
>http://www.akrobiz.com/ezfb/
>
>Is there anything like this in FreeBSD?
>Is there any way to port this code to FreeBSD?
>
>Thanks!
>
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