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<pre style="float:right; color:white; background-color:black; font-size:smaller; width:45%; padding:6pt 8pt">
<span style="color:green">david@david-mb</span> <span style="color:blue">~/dev/kmscon $</span> ls -la
total 3424
drwxr-xr-x 12 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:blue">.</span>
drwxr-xr-x 30 david david 4096 Oct 29 09:33 <span style="color:blue">..</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 51900 Oct 29 11:02 aclocal.m4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 113 Dec 1 2012 <span style="color:green">autogen.sh</span>
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:blue">autom4te.cache</span>
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:blue">build-aux</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 4082 Oct 29 11:02 config.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 3718 Oct 29 11:02 config.h.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 49283 Oct 29 11:02 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 64743 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:green">config.status</span>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 546241 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:green">configure</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 25163 Oct 29 10:52 configure.ac
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 6759 May 10 17:16 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 Oct 29 10:20 <span style="color:blue">docs</span>
drwxr-xr-x 4 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:blue">external</span>
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 May 10 17:16 <span style="color:blue">fblog</span>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 22043 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:green">genshader</span>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 23290 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:green">genunifont</span>
drwxr-xr-x 8 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:12 <span style="color:blue">.git</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 544 Oct 29 09:41 .gitignore
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 1009988 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:green">kmscon</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 950068 Oct 29 11:12 kmscon-8.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 871 Oct 29 11:14 libeloop.la
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:blue">.libs</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 865 Oct 29 11:14 libshl.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 david david 293012 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:green">libtool</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 938 Oct 29 11:14 libuterm.la
drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:blue">m4</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 136680 Oct 29 11:02 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 14674 Oct 29 10:33 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 154345 Oct 29 11:02 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 0 Oct 29 11:14 .man_fixup
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 949 Oct 29 11:14 mod-bbulk.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 958 Oct 29 11:14 mod-gltex.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 1041 Oct 29 11:14 mod-pango.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 963 Oct 29 11:14 mod-unifont.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 12143 Oct 29 11:01 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 4695 Oct 29 10:52 README
drwxr-xr-x 4 david david 16384 Oct 29 11:14 <span style="color:blue">src</span>
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 23 Oct 29 11:02 stamp-h1
drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 Oct 29 11:02 <span style="color:blue">tests</span>
<span style="color:green">david@david-mb</span> <span style="color:blue">~/dev/kmscon $</span>
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# KMS/DRM based System Console
**`kmscon`** is a system console for linux. It does not depend on any graphics-server on your system (like _X.org_), but instead provides a raw console layer that can be used independently. It can replace the linux kernel console entirely but was designed to work well side-by-side, too. Even though initially targeted at providing internationalization to the system-console, it has grown into a fully modularized console layer including features like multi-head support, internationalized font rendering, XKB-compatible keyboard handling, hardware-accelerated graphics access and more.
Several sub-projects emerged out of kmscon. Have a look at:
* [[wlterm|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm/]]
* [[libtsm|http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libtsm/]]
## Why the name?
`kmscon` uses the **Direct-Rendering-Manager** (DRM) of the linux kernel to access graphics devices. The API that performs mode-setting on displays/monitors is called **Kernel-Mode-Setting** (KMS). Hence its name `kmscon`. Today, `kmscon` can also make use of other graphics-APIs. But these were mainly introduced for backwards-compatibility. KMS/DRM is the way to go!
## Mailing Lists:
* [[General Development and Discussion|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/kmscon-devel]]
## Bug Reports:
* [[Existing Bug Reports|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=kmscon]]
* [[File a New Bug Report|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=kmscon]]
## Download:
* [[Tarball Releases|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases/]]
## Git:
* [[developer repository (David Herrmann)|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/kmscon/]]
* [[old github repository|http://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon]]
## Distribution Packages:
* [[Arch Linux|https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kmscon/]] [[(Wiki)|https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KMSCON]]
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