Erik Mouw wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:34:16PM +0530, Max Stirling wrote:
cat /proc/devices shows fb but when I do ls -l /dev I don't find the fb
node
The X-server should be using the framebuffer (/dev/fb)? So why is fb not
listed under /dev?
Because the kernel will not create device nodes itself. If you use
udev, udev will create the device node for you. If you don't use udev,
you have to do it by hand: mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 .
(Note: the first framebuffer device is called /dev/fb0, not /dev/fb).
Erik
Thanks for the response.
If I have xserver running on my machine, then it should be using
framebuffer. If it is using framebuffer then it there should be a fb0
under /dev.
Why is there no fb0 under /dev?
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Max Stirling
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