Of course, there’s no way for Linux to speak to the LCD without a kernel driver; [Sprite_tm] wrote a framebuffer driver so the LCD can be used as a console, an X session, or used by any other ...

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Playing soma.fm streams was handled by mpd and mpc, while the task of driving a 2.8″ TFT LCD was handled by the fbtft Linux framebuffer driver.

EDIT: Refer This solution instead. For my 3.5" GPIO Display (MPI3501), changing framebuffer in xorg config from fb0 to fb1 fixed the issue. If this wrong framebuffer actually is the only reason why ...

A framebuffer is a block of memory that stores pixel data before being sent to the display. The TFT LCD does not inherently support double buffering, but in software implementations, two buffers ...

They're probably just using a framebuffer for their console instead of the old MDA text mode. I don't know about FreeBSD, but you can do the same thing in Linux on most video cards.