Re: error in reading frame-buffer device

[Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

shubhendu wrote:
> i what i think there should always be a frame buffer device otherwise
> how X server can work on my machine .....( its my thinking may be wrong )
> so having  a penguin boot logo is not the sign of having a framebuffer
> device

AFAIK, X server has drivers for different chipset and hence does not need frame
buffer. Frame buffer is only one of the ways to run into graphics mode(Almost if
nothing else works).

X can very well do without frame buffer.

 Shridhar