RE: Getting started

Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Steven Blakeslee wrote:
> >		[wre00@Shrek FB]$ ls -lrt /dev/fb*
> >		crwxrwxr-x  1 wre00 root 29, 0 Aug 17 10:05 /dev/fb0
> 
> Just because something is in /dev does not mean there is a device driver
> associated with it.

Indeed, does `cat /proc/fb' indicate a frame buffer device is active?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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