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Re: FrameBuffer Console support.
Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>
> On 14-Feb-99 Yoni Elhanani wrote:
>
> > Hmmm...
> > As I browsed around in my kernel sorce directory,
> > I saw a thingy called fbcon, which supposedly make my console run in
> > svga resolutions and display a logo of tux on startup.
> >
> > Do you know how to make it work?
>
> A strange habbit, indeed: browsing a source directory and ignoring a docs
> directory.
>
> $ ls /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb
> 00-INDEX internals.txt vesafb.txt
> framebuffer.txt matroxfb.txt
>
I read the docs before I compiled it,
If I hadnt read them I wouldnt know what it was....
But (as I recall) they document more on the technical side of it.
(how it worx, rather than how to make it work... :-))
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