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From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:42:01 +0000
Subject: Getting FB to work in Console
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I want to make framebuffer work in console only Debian installation.
I find many of the howto's on the web won't work for current Debian
Stable - or I'm just too stupid to figure them out.
< grin >

I want to get fbi and links2 -g working in console.

I tried entering in console:

sudo mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0

But when I reboot /dev/fb0 does not exist.

I've had links2 -g working before - I've got libdirectfb-dev
libdirectfb-bin and all the files I can find with directfb to install.

I am working on Debian Stable command line only.

David