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Vesafb mini-HOWTO

Alex Buell, alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk

v0.5, 2 August 1998


This document describes how to use the vesafb device in Linux with a VESA 2.0 compliant graphic card on Intel platforms.

1. Contributors

2. What is vesafb?

3. What is a framebuffer device?

4. How do I activate the vesafb drivers?

5. What VESA modes are available to me?

6. Is there a X11 driver for vesafb?

7. Can I make vesafb as a module?

8. Miscellaneous/Caveats


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