Re: Re: Getting started

William Estrada <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Organization Mt Umunhum WIreless dot net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles,

  Thanks for the pointer.  That's was good information.

  I will be adding another video card to my system soon.  Do you know
of a URL that could help with this task?  I don't know if I will be
using a NVidia card or not.  Will the system auto-magically configure
it for this setup?


  William Estrada 
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Charles Lepple wrote:

>On 8/19/05, William Estrada <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>>Like magic the /dev/fb and /dev/fb0
>> were defined by the system (??).
>>    
>>
>
>This bit of magic is "udev". It gets messages from the kernel when
>drivers are loaded, and it creates device nodes for you. When using
>udev, the /dev filesystem is actually created in a ramdisk, which
>explains why the device nodes disappeared when you rebooted.
>
>  
>
>>Now I need to know how to make more Frame Buffer devices!
>>    
>>
>
>Typically, you get one frame buffer device node per video card.
>(/dev/fb is probably a link to /dev/fb0)
>
>  
>
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