[BBLISA] EL7 / CentOS - Alternative to fbterm or a way to get /dev/fb0 back?

[Matt Simmons]

Does it NEED to be a framebuffer, or could you do a classic "startx" and
run whatever program in a kiosk mode?

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Nick Cammorato <nick.cammorato at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> Firing this one off in as many places as I can :)
>
> I'm trying to appliance-ify a CentOS 7 VM. This looks like it may be a
> lost art as boxgrinder is dead and no one has talked about virtual
> appliances in years as best I can tell. Anyway, the first challenge
> there is to just spawn a control console on tty1, which systemd
> actually makes somehow easier.
>
> So that's done. I can spawn a program on tty1, I can even do all kinds
> of cool things with selinux contexts, environment, users, etc. One
> problem though, 16 color terminal. I really want at least 256 colors,
> you know, for the marketing dept. #hudsuckerproxy
>
> The "classic" way I think of of fixing that is to wrap whatever in
> fbterm. Which isn't available anymore, but no big, it compiles,
> packages and installs cleanly. It won't run, of course, because
> there's no /dev/fb0 and there also doesn't appear to be any modules
> you can load which will create it. Well, scratch that, the centos-xen
> repo contains kernels that have the vga16fb module compiled in which
> will create /dev/fb0, but that's a useless /dev/fb0 that only supports
> 16 colors. There might be a way to load vmwgfx or some such in a way
> that creates it, but I haven't found that yet.
>
> Oh, and of course all of this is complicated by the fact that I'm
> trying to hit all of VirtualBox, Fusion, Workstation and ESXi - each
> of which seem to have subtly different display adapters. Which might
> be a future problem... except it all works fine in EL6/CentOS6.
>
> So basically I'm now deep into a cavern and there's a yak here. Does
> anyone know how to shave it / how you are supposed to do this today?
>
> Cheers,
> --Nick
>
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