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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 ...

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.

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.