Re: Running frame buffer programs using a VGA console?

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

So you have an active frame buffer device (you can check this using `cat

/proc/fb')....

 

Yep.  Same contents as when using fbcon.

... and fbtest should work. You cannot switch between graphcis and text mode,
though, since there's no console attached to your frame buffer device.

 

Huh?  Now I'm confused.  Do you mean that I can't go between text and graphics using fbset or some other such utility or do you mean that fbtest can't go between text and graphics modes?  Because it's the latter that's happening by the looks of things.  It's not going into graphics mode to do the test.

John





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