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>1. <A
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>Contributors</A
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>2. <A
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>What is a framebuffer device?</A
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>What advantages does framebuffer devices have?</A
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>Using framebuffer devices on x86 platforms</A
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>What is vesafb?</A
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>How do I activate the vesafb drivers?</A
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>What VESA modes are available to me?</A
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>Got a Matrox card?</A
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>Got a Permedia card?</A
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>Got an ATI card?</A
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>Which graphic cards are VESA 2.0 compliant?</A
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>Can I compile vesafb as a module?</A
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>Using framebuffer devices on m68k platforms</A
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>What modes are available?</A
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>Copyright <20> 1999—2010 Alex Buell, GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFPL)</P
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>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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