romel dutta wrote:
hii everyone.. here, i want some serious help... i m trying to use XFree86 xserver for framebuffer....but i m unable to find the place from where it's opening the fb device.i want it to put some of my codes in order to grab the frames ...,wht i found from /var/log/XFree86.0.log is tht it's going inside /build/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86 directory..bt,WHR it's opening the fb device is still unknown to me..i doubt it's from fbdevhw.c in build/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw ,bt not sure.. can,any1 plzz help me get the hook..!!!
Which driver? Many of the drivers don't use /dev/fb at all. They access the hardware directly.
You can grab frames without writing any code at all. That's what the "xwd" tool is for.
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