Reading the handbook from console

[Polytropon]

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. :-)




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