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From: Ssagarr Patil <hugarsagar@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:26:03 +0000
Subject: RE: SSD1306 OLED driver
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Hi Maxim,

>>>
>> Thanks for the pointer, I am using spi_write() call and I see /dev/fb0 node created.
>> but when I do echo "1121"> /dev/fb0 nothing comes up on oled any pointers on this ?
>
> You can't use it like that. It's a standard framebuffer, that is
> represented as an array of pixels, so you need to use a font rendering
> software if you want to output some text.
>
can fbtest (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geert/fbtest.git/) be used to to draw something ?

Thanks And Regards,
Sagar