HOW2 test a frame-buffer?

From	no.top.post@gmail.com
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject	HOW2 test a frame-buffer?
Date	2012-01-04 14:10 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<je1ml9$3gs$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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An application that I need to have on a HP-mini netbook,
needs a frame buffer.

When I did: cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV  -n -v  fb
it showed :
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/
create fb0      c 29 0 root:video 0660
create fb1      c 29 1 root:video 0660
create fb2      c 29 2 root:video 0660
create fb3      c 29 3 root:video 0660
create fb4      c 29 4 root:video 0660
create fb5      c 29 5 root:video 0660
create fb6      c 29 6 root:video 0660
create fb7      c 29 7 root:video 0660

Because the app. still failed, I did:
ln -s /dev/.static/dev/fb0   /dev/fb0
which made a difference: 
 the VT-display, just blanks.

But I was able to 'key' to other VTs and
Ctrl/C, Ctrl/D ..to free up the VT, which I
had to re-login, after each test cycle.

My slak13 PC shows some info for `fbset`;
but the netbook has got DebianEtch without any
utilities to test the frame-buffer, that I can find.

How would I test the fb* facility independantly
of my application?

== TIA.

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HOW2 test a frame-buffer? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-04 14:10 +0000
  Re: HOW2 test a frame-buffer? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-06 08:15 +0000
    Re: HOW2 test a frame-buffer? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-01-06 08:57 +0000
      Re (2): HOW2 test a frame-buffer? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-06 16:26 +0000
    Re: HOW2 test a frame-buffer? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-01-06 23:18 -0500
      Re (2): HOW2 test a frame-buffer? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-08 05:35 +0000
      Re (3): HOW2 test a frame-buffer? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-01-08 15:42 +0000

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