PiTFT shield, fbcon, framebuffer, ssh/console window

[8frompi]

Hi,

I followed the instructions on your website and everything works as it should. Thanks for a great product!

I'm now looking for a possibility to write stuff to the TFT from a ssh session or other console window. In other words, I'm trying to avoid running an X session and I'm also not keen on the route via PyGame graphics, but a simple way to use the TFT as mirror for a ssh session. First experiments writing random character strings /dev/fb1 yields colourful pixels in the upper left corner, but I'd like to use something more high-level that allows me to use the TFT as text-only display. Alternatively, a non-X web browser like link2 might also be an option, although with a 320x240x(16bit) setting I can only get garbled output on the screen.

Any hints?

[adafruit2]

yah - you need a program that writes to the framebuffer. pygame is probably the easiest - you will have to write something that takes data in and pipes it to the display in the font of your choosing :) there may be OTHER frame-buffer friendly programs that automatically do this. but can't think of one off hand... maybe screen? screen does just about everything ;)

[8frompi]

...screen didn't really help, or at least I couldn't figure out how to do it. I've resorted to a program called fbtext that displays text files on /dev/fb1.

If anyone has any better ideas, please do get in touch. My write-up/log can be found here: http://logic.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/?p=1527

Boris