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# Video configuration
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menu "Graphics support"
config FB
tristate "Support for frame buffer devices"
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The frame buffer device provides an abstraction for the graphics
hardware. It represents the frame buffer of some video hardware and
allows application software to access the graphics hardware through
a well-defined interface, so the software doesn't need to know
anything about the low-level (hardware register) stuff.
Frame buffer devices work identically across the different
architectures supported by Linux and make the implementation of
application programs easier and more portable; at this point, an X
server exists which uses the frame buffer device exclusively.
On several non-X86 architectures, the frame buffer device is the
only way to use the graphics hardware.
The device is accessed through special device nodes, usually located
in the /dev directory, i.e. /dev/fb*.
You need an utility program called fbset to make full use of frame
buffer devices. Please read <file:Documentation/fb/framebuff
