Framebuffer HOWTO

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

1. Contributors

2. What is a framebuffer device?

3. What advantages does framebuffer devices have?

4. Using framebuffer devices on Intel platforms

• 4.1 What is vesafb?
• 4.2 How do I activate the vesafb drivers?
• 4.3 What VESA modes are available to me?
• 4.4 Got a Matrox card?
• 4.5 Got a Permedia card?
• 4.6 Got a ATI card?
• 4.7 Which graphic cards are VESA 2.0 compliant?
• 4.8 Can I make vesafb as a module?
• 4.9 How do I modify the cursor?

5. Using framebuffer devices on Atari m68k platforms

• 5.1 What modes are available on Atari m68k platforms?
• 5.2 Additional suboptions on Atari m68k platforms
• 5.3 Using the internal suboption on Atari m68k platforms
• 5.4 Using the external suboption on Atari m68k platforms

6. Using framebuffer devices on Amiga m68k platforms

• 6.1 What modes are available for Amiga m68k platforms?
• 6.2 Additional suboptions on Amiga m68k platforms
• 6.3 Supported Amiga graphic expansion boards

7. Using framebuffer devices on Macintosh m68k platforms

8. Using framebuffer devices on PowerPC platforms

9. Using framebuffer devices on Alpha platforms

• 9.1 What modes are available to me?
• 9.2 Which graphic cards can work with the frambuffer device?

10. Using framebuffer devices on SPARC platforms

• 10.1 Which graphic cards can work with the framebuffer device?
• 10.2 Configuring the framebuffer devices

11. Using framebuffer devices on MIPS platforms

12. Using framebuffer devices on ARM platforms

• 12.1 Netwinders
• 12.2 Acorn Archimedes
• 12.3 Other ARM ports (SA 7110s et. al)

13. Using multi-headed framebuffers

• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Feedback
• 13.3 Contributors
• 13.4 Standard Disclaimer
• 13.5 Copyright Information
• 13.6 What hardware is supported?
• 13.7 Commercial support
• 13.8 Getting all the stuff.
• 13.9 Getting Started
• 13.10 Summary
• 13.11 Other Notes and Problems

14. Using/Changing fonts

15. Changing console modes

16. Setting up the X11 FBdev driver

17. How do I convert XFree86 mode-lines into framebuffer device timings?

18. Looking for further information?