Reading the handbook from console

[Fbsd8]

Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:48:33 -0800, dteske at freebsd.org wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:33 PM
>>> To: Fbsd8
>>> Cc: scotteberl at gmail.com; questions at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: Reading the handbook from console
>>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:57:47 -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>>> Scott Eberl wrote:
>>>>> I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I was
>>>>> able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if there is a
>>>>> preferred method for reading these since they are in html format. I tried
>>>>> w3m and lynx and it looks like they are both not installed. Is there
>>>>> something i'm missing for reading these or do I just need to install a cli
>>>>> browser?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Viewing html takes some form of browser.
>>> There is no text mode web browser in the base system.
>>> Installing one is easy: As the HTML files generated
>>> for the Handbook are good quality, they display nicely
>>> in lynx, links, and w3m (probably the most prominent
>>> three text mode web browsers).
>>>
>>>
>> I must know...
>>
>> What is Polytropon's favorite of those listed? (and perhaps also "elinks" ?)
> 
> Hard to say, now that X is everywhere... :-)
> 
> In the past, I've started using lynx because it was "the
> default". Somehow I even tend to remember that it was part
> of the default installation in around FreeBSD 4 or so...
> but that could be wrong.
> 
> Later on I tried w3m and also found it usable.
> 
> Today I'd say I prefer links for interactive text mode
> browsing. Still "lynx -dump" is a welcome tool in some
> of my scripts, and never change a running system. :-)
> 
> Reading the pkg-descr of elinks it seems to bring lots
> of extensions, some interesting, some not that interesting
> (at least for the use discussed here: reading FreeBSD
> supplied local documentation: no need for cookies, scripts,
> or HTTP referers). Other features like the ability to
> render tables might be a reason not to use a browser
> that cannot do this (maybe lynx can't?).
> 
> 
> 
>> (and do you enable console graphics?)
> 
> No, I have to admit that I've never even _tried_ that.
> Somehow deep inside my brain there's the statement that
> "graphics in console mode is libvga which is for Linux,
> not for FreeBSD", but that might not apply anymore.
> 
> However, The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ mostly contain
> text, I mean, that's what they are about, and for reading
> text I don't see a need for graphics. If I want graphics,
> I have X. :-)
> 
> 
> 

What do you mean by "enable console graphics"?
Is this something different than x11?