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This is exactly right - you can get a framebuffer on just about anything, including pretty much any video card made since about 1990, and also more fun things l
by antisol 7mo ago
This is exactly right - you can get a framebuffer on just about anything, including pretty much any video card made since about 1990, and also more fun things like the little i2c display that your toaster has. No need to restrict relatively simple software like fbi/fim to running on less hardware by using drm.
- anthk 7mo agoI used to play videos with the framebuffer just fine and read PDF's with fbpdf2, among watching TV with fbtv and the like. I didn't miss nearly anything, as most games under SDL1/2 can render into FB with export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=fbcon or export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=kmsdrm And tons of games too, such as Supertux2, Crispy Doom, SDLQuake, FreeCiv-SDL...
- antisol 7mo agoanother fun one if you're in an exotic situation and don't have a framebuffer (or if you just want to have some fun by making your games to look worse): export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=aalib unfortunately it's only SDL1, though
- capitainenemo 7mo agoexport SDL_VIDEODRIVER=caca is more usable for games
- antisol 7mo agoOh nice! How did I not know it works with caca?!
- capitainenemo 7mo agoWorks pretty well even. I wish there was a libchafa variant, and ideally for SDL2. I've even played SC2, The Ur-Quan masters fairly successfully in an ssh session that way. And Frozen Bubble.
- sylware 7mo agoThis is what I meant: kmsdrm.