6 files changed, 148 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/system/fbterm/README b/system/fbterm/README
index d9d09374ff97..3a82f40f7321 100644
--- a/system/fbterm/README
+++ b/system/fbterm/README
@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@
-FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device
-or VESA video card.
+FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with the frame buffer device
+or a VESA video card.
 
-* If you want to use shortcuts under FbTerm as a normal user, see
-  the SECURITY NOTES section of the man page for solution.
+fbterm supports the mouse (provided gpm is running) and is able to
+share the console with (some) other applications, such as "mplayer -vo
+fbdev2". It also uses the same fonts as X, and renders them with lovely
+antialiasing like modern X terminals. fbterm has *much* better Unicode
+support than the plain Linux framebuffer console.
 
-* To enable FbTerm to redirect /dev/tty0 output to the pseudo terminal
-  of current sub-window, see the same man page as above.
+Also included is a handy utility called checkfb, which simply checks
+for the presence and usability of the framebuffer device, and shows its
+resolution and bit depth.
+
+This package uses POSIX filesystem capabilities to execute with
+elevated privileges (required for keyboard shortcuts and console
+redirection). This may be considered a security risk. Please read
+http://www.slackbuilds.org/caps/ for more information. To disable
+capabilities, pass SETCAP=no to the script. See also the SECURITY
+NOTES section in the fbterm man page.
diff --git a/system/fbterm/checkfb.c b/system/fbterm/checkfb.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9180c4ef6043
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/fbterm/checkfb.c
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/*
+# qtopia core testing framebuffer (1)
+# Originally written by Trolltech (2)(3)
+#
+# (1) http://cep.xray.aps.anl.gov/software/qt4-x11-4.2.2/qtopiacore-testingframebuffer.html
+# (2) http://cep.xray.aps.anl.gov/software/qt4-x11-4.2.2/opensourceedition.html
+# (3) http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.2/gpl.html
+#
+# Modified by Sébastien Ballet <slacker6896@gmail.com>
+*/
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <linux/fb.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	int fbfd = 0;
+	struct fb_var_screeninfo vinfo;
+	struct fb_fix_screeninfo finfo;
+	long int screensize = 0;
+	char *fbp = 0;
+	
+	char* fbName="/dev/fb0";
+
+	if ( argc > 2) {
+		printf("usage: checkfb [framebuffer device] \n");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	if ( argc == 2) {
+		fbName=argv[1];
+	} 
+
+	fbfd = open(fbName, O_RDWR);
+
+	if (fbfd == -1) {
+		perror("Error: cannot open framebuffer device");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	printf("The framebuffer device (%s) was opened successfully.\n",fbName);
+
+		// Get fixed screen information
+	if (ioctl(fbfd, FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO, &finfo) == -1) {
+		perror("Error reading fixed information");
+		exit(2);
+	}
+
+		// Get variable screen information
+	if (ioctl(fbfd, FBIOGET_VSCREENINFO, &vinfo) == -1) {
+		perror("Error reading variable information");
+		exit(3);
+	}
+
+	printf("%dx%d, %dbpp\n", vinfo.xres, vinfo.yres, vinfo.bits_per_pixel);
+
+		// Figure out the size of the screen in bytes
+	screensize = vinfo.xres * vinfo.yres * vinfo.bits_per_pixel / 8;
+
+	// Map the device to memory
+	fbp = (char *)mmap(0, screensize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,fbfd, 0);
+
+	if ( fbp == MAP_FAILED ) {
+		perror("Error: failed to map framebuffer device to memory");
+		exit(4);
+	}
+	printf("The framebuffer device was mapped to memory successfully.\n");
+
+	munmap(fbp, screensize);
+	close(fbfd);
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/system/fbterm/fbterm.SlackBuild b/system/fbterm/fbterm.SlackBuild
index 52a9168660bf..269c69c8a6e6 100644
--- a/system/fbterm/fbterm.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/fbterm/fbterm.SlackBuild
@@ -2,15 +2,28 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for fbterm
 
-# Written by vvoody <ydoovv@gmail.com>
+# Originally written by vvoody <email removed>
+# Now maintained by B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
+
+# Original vvoody version of this script had no license. Modified version
+# is licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
+# for details.
+
+# 20170403 bkw:
+# - take over maintenance
+# - upgrade for v1.8
+# - use new github homepage
+# - stop installing empty NEWS
+# - fix and simplify script
+# - write compiled terminfo stuff to $PKG, not /usr...
+# - add checkfb.c, from Trolltech by way of Slint
+# - add capability stuff
 
 PRGNAM=fbterm
-VERSION=${VERSION:-1.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-1.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
-TARBALL_VERSION=1.7.0
-
 if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   case "$( uname -m )" in
     i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
@@ -43,8 +56,8 @@ set -e
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
 cd $TMP
-rm -rf $TOPDIR
-tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$TARBALL_VERSION.tar.gz
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
 find -L . \
@@ -53,6 +66,12 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+# without this, /usr gets spammed by 'tic', and the terminfo stuff
+# doesn't become part of the package.
+TERMINFO=$PKG/usr/share/terminfo
+export TERMINFO
+mkdir -p $TERMINFO
+
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     ./configure \
@@ -62,26 +81,34 @@ CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
     --localstatedir=/var \
     --mandir=/usr/man \
     --infodir=/usr/info \
-    --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux \
-    || true
+    --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
 
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
-find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-
-( cd $PKG/usr/man
-  find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
-  for i in $(find . -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
-)
+strip $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
 
+# don't install NEWS, it's empty.
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a README ChangeLog AUTHORS NEWS COPYING $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a README ChangeLog AUTHORS COPYING $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
+# previous maintainer of this build, Didier Spaier, said he intended
+# to bundle this with fbterm, for use in Slint. it looks like a useful
+# little utility.
+gcc $SLKCFLAGS -Wl,-s -o $PKG/usr/bin/checkfb $CWD/checkfb.c
+
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
+# Only add capability stuff if not disabled:
+if [ "${SETCAP:-yes}" = "yes" ]; then
+  cat $CWD/setcap.sh >> $PKG/install/doinst.sh
+  # Only allow execution by video group
+  chown root:video $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
+  chmod 0750 $PKG/usr/bin/$PRGNAM
+fi
+
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -p -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/system/fbterm/fbterm.info b/system/fbterm/fbterm.info
index f37ee41f086e..4b097e25de3b 100644
--- a/system/fbterm/fbterm.info
+++ b/system/fbterm/fbterm.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="fbterm"
-VERSION="1.7"
-HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://fbterm.googlecode.com/files/fbterm-1.7.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="c36bae75a450df0519b4527cccaf7572"
+VERSION="1.8"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm/archive/1.8/fbterm-1.8.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="40c36b28488ae8e33a76332fe429aed9"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Didier Spaier"
-EMAIL="didier.spaier@epsm.fr"
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="yalhcru@gmail.com"
diff --git a/system/fbterm/setcap.sh b/system/fbterm/setcap.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2cee612dd541
--- /dev/null
+++ b/system/fbterm/setcap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[ -x /sbin/setcap ] && /sbin/setcap cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_tty_config=ep usr/bin/fbterm
diff --git a/system/fbterm/slack-desc b/system/fbterm/slack-desc
index 1e9daae483d6..05cc0f893101 100644
--- a/system/fbterm/slack-desc
+++ b/system/fbterm/slack-desc
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
       |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-fbterm: fbterm (a fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux)
+fbterm: fbterm (fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for linux)
+fbterm:
+fbterm: FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with the frame buffer
+fbterm: device or a VESA video card.
 fbterm:
-fbterm: FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device
-fbterm: or VESA video card.
 fbterm:
-fbterm: Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/
 fbterm:
 fbterm:
 fbterm: