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    The framebuffer subsystem in the Linux kernel fbdev is used to show graphics on a computer monitor, typically on the system console. It was designed as...
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    are two main implementations: framebuffer and text mode. The framebuffer implementation is the default in modern Linux distributions, and together with...
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    A framebuffer (frame buffer, or sometimes framestore) is a portion of random-access memory (RAM) containing a bitmap that drives a video display. It is...
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  • decoding, as well as GPGPU computing. The Linux kernel already had an API called fbdev, used to manage the framebuffer of a graphics adapter, but it couldn't...
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    The Linux kernel is a free and open source: 4  Unix-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide. The kernel was created by Linus Torvalds...
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  • paper Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine Framebuffer object reference at openvidia Example code for Windows and Linux EXT Framebuffer (opengl.org)...
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  • This is a list of display servers based on X11, Wayland, Linux framebuffer and other systems. Cygwin/X KDrive Low Bandwidth X MacX Mir (display server)...
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  • OtherOS (redirect from Ps3 linux)
    PlayStation 3 video game console, allowing user installed software, such as Linux or FreeBSD. Software running in the OtherOS environment has access to 6...
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    Rust for Linux is an ongoing project started in 2020 to add Rust as a programming language that can be used within the Linux kernel software, which has...
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  • Magic SysRq key (category Linux kernel features)
    The magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low-level commands regardless of the...
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  • by Groupe Bull and Olivetti. In addition, headless (i.e., without a framebuffer or video card) versions were marketed as servers under the name "MIPS...
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    Nouveau (software) (category Linux drivers)
    create an open source driver by reverse engineering Nvidia's proprietary Linux drivers. It is managed by the X.Org Foundation, hosted by freedesktop.org...
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  • DirectFB (category Linux APIs)
    for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer without requiring any kernel modifications. DirectFB is free and open-source...
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    and open-source media player software application. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS...
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  • hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux and in some other Linux distributions. Running hwinfo --framebuffer reports graphics information, including...
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    implemented in a way that Wayland clients will draw directly to the framebuffer using EGL. Mesa 3D has an implementation of EGL formerly known as Eagle...
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    Firefox OS (redirect from Gonk Linux)
    based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. It was first commercially released in 2014. Firefox OS was designed...
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    integrated Sun Turbo GX cgsix color framebuffer on the internal SBus. This frees one SBus slot from framebuffer duty, which makes the SPARCstation IPX...
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  • General Graphics Interface (category Linux APIs)
    user-space libraries, with an array of different backends or targets (e.g. Linux framebuffer, X11, Quartz, DirectX), of which the two most fundamental are LibGII...
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  • Video Acceleration API (category Video acceleration APIs available on Linux)
    operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris), and Android, however it can potentially also be used with direct framebuffer and graphics sub-systems...
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    popular Creator3D framebuffer is not supported, but will usually (but not always) work. Some Ultra 80s were sold with the PGX32 framebuffer, even though its...
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    GLX Direct Rendering Infrastructure and framebuffer All access goes through the Direct Rendering Manager In Linux kernel 3.12, render nodes are merged and...
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    on Linux it passes the data to one of three kernel components – DRM, gem or KMS driver. The kernel component writes the data into the framebuffer and...
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  • R4000/R4400 or compatible microprocessor an EISA bus a framebuffer for video output (the G364 framebuffer) PS/2 connectors for mouse and keyboard a floppy-disk...
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  • Sinclair QL (section Linux)
    more colours, but at lower resolutions. Both screen modes use a 32 KiB framebuffer in main memory. The hardware is capable of switching between two different...
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    slots, and added a UPA slot to allow the use of an optional Creator framebuffer. In addition, the E models had Wide SCSI and Fast Ethernet interfaces...
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  • memory-based framebuffer used by the IGP. The Optimus Copy Engine is a new alternative to traditional DMA transfers between the GPU framebuffer memory and...
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  • Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (category Virtualization software for Linux)
    library to provide this capability and implements the QXL paravirtualized framebuffer device to enable the guest OS to take advantage of the performance benefits...
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  • the server as a normal user. It is also possible to use XFree86 in a framebuffer device, which in turn uses a kernel graphics card driver. On a typical...
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    Xen (category Linux Foundation projects)
    University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba...
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