# Quoting "Beerse, Corni" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In general, a framebuffer can be seen as the video memory of a video > adapter. (this is a verry rough descriptoin). > > ON various unix workstations, like Sun Sparc Stations and HP-UX > workstations, this framebuffer is accessable as a device in /dev/fb (or > /dev/fb0 or variants). These devices are available on newer linux too but > most distributions have not activated it by default.
Ok, so we are referring to the same beast ;). > As far as I know, the x0rfbserver is grabbing /dev/fb or such, not depending > on any Xserver actually running there so it should be possible to grab a > text console that uses the framebuffer. Please can someone correct me on > this if I'm wrong. I have happily run x0rfbserver on machines without /dev/fb, so while I have not verified it in the source, I dont believe x0rfb uses the framebuffer device in any way. It exports the X "framebuffer", not the linux framebuffer device. Cheers, Till _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
