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From: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org>
To: Dale DuRose <mafiageek@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD VGA  Framebuffer
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:51:24AM +1300, Dale DuRose wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone knows if freebsd has a vga framebuffer?
> and how to use it?

Yes it has. It's sources are in /usr/src/dev/fb and there is no
man page (at least on RELENG_4). Not sure it even exist in RELENG_[56].

-ip

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