Framebuffer [/dev/fb*]

willytheworm

I recently moved from debian to Ubuntu 14.04 and realized, that I have no framebuffer device located at "/dev/fb0". I already uncommented the vesafb driver from the framebuffer-blacklist and updated initramfs, however I do not know how to get access to the fb0 device (it does not show up in "/dev") .

It would be nice If you could help

joel2001k

Download your kernel source code look at the video driver source code you're using. Then figure out major and minor device number and do:

mknod /dev/fb0 c [MAJOR MINOR]