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Rev

Thanks for the answer! This combined with ctrl-alt-delor's answer provides me pretty much all the explanation I was looking for :) I'm new to actually posting questions on Stack Exchange and I wish I could give you both the checkmark!

poopoopeepee123
– poopoopeepee123

2020-02-20 23:08:23 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 23:08
I think (but haven't checked) that this will also work with Xorg when it's using its fbdev driver.

Ruslan
– Ruslan

2020-02-21 09:01:41 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2020 at 9:01
7

Mouse to frame buffer was the most fun I had all day

WhiteHotLoveTiger
– WhiteHotLoveTiger

2020-02-21 20:45:06 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2020 at 20:45
Also it's interesting to visualise things like your disk: cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/fb0 makes some cool patterns

Jachdich
– Jachdich

2020-02-22 14:56:43 +00:00
Commented Feb 22, 2020 at 14:56

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