Q: frame buffer video in FreeBSD ???

From: James Lehman (james_at_akrobiz.com)
Date: 02/12/04

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:34:55 -0500

    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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