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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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