1. Contributors

Thanks go to these people listed below who helped improve the Framebuffer HOWTO.

• Jeff Noxon jeff@planetfall.com
• Francis Devereux f.devereux@cs.ucl.ac.uk
• Andreas Ehliar ehliar@futurniture.se
• Martin McCarthy marty@ehabitat.demon.co.uk
• Simon Kenyon simon@koala.ie
• David Ford david@kalifornia.com
• Chris Black cblack@cmpteam4.unil.ch
• N Becker nbecker@fred.net
• Bob Tracy rct@gherkin.sa.wlk.com
• Marius Hjelle marius.hjelle@roman.uib.no
• James Cassidy jcassidy@misc.dyn.ml.org
• Andreas U. Trottmann andreas.trottmann@werft22.com
• Lech Szychowski lech7@lech.pse.pl
• Aaron Tiensivu tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu
• Jan-Frode Myklebust for his info on permedia cards janfrode@ii.uib.no
• Many others too numerous to add, but thanks!

Thanks go to Rick Niles frederick.a.niles@gsfc.nasa.gov who has very kindly handed over his Multi-Head Mini-HOWTO for inclusion in this HOWTO.

Thanks to these people listed below who built libc5/glibc2 versions of the XF86_FBdev X11 framebuffer driver for X11 on Intel platforms:

• Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com
• Gerd Knorr kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de

and of course the authors of the framebuffer devices:

• Martin Schaller - original author of the framebuffer concept
• Roman Hodek Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
• Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
• Guenther Kelleter
• Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
• Roman Zippel roman@sodom.obdg.de
• Pavel Machek pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
• Gerd Knorr kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de
• Miguel de Icaza miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx
• David Carter carter@compsci.bristol.ac.uk
• William Rucklidge wjr@cs.cornell.edu
• Jes Sorensen jds@kom.auc.dk
• Sigurdur Asgeirsson
• Jeffrey Kuskin jsk@mojave.stanford.edu
• Michal Rehacek michal.rehacek@st.mff.cuni.edu
• Peter Zaitcev zaitcev@lab.ipmce.su
• David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
• Dave Redman djhr@tadpole.co.uk
• Jay Estabrook
• Martin Mares mj@ucw.cz
• Dan Jacobowitz dan@debian.org
• Emmanuel Marty core@ggi-project.org
• Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be
• Jakub Jelinek jj@ultra.linux.cz
• Phil Blundell philb@gnu.org
• Anyone else, stand up and be counted. :o)