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Xorg FBDEV refuses to use the specified framebuffer

I'm using Xorg with the FBDEV driver, configuration: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "fbdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" ...
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Is it possible to run fb on one head and X on anohter, given one card connected to a TV and a monitor?

I would like to set up so that my computer's monitor is connected to it's VGA output, while having a framebuffer on the other head. Both heads seem to share a card. They work fine as part of the same ...
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Xfbdev not found after including X (tinyx/kdrive) in Buildroot

I'm trying to add Xorg to an evaluation board for which I've already been provided with a working linux kernel. The evaluation board has an LCD display and I can confirm hardware & drivers are ...
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How can I display graphics on the screen from the kernel over the top of my X11/Wayland session?

I want to draw simple (2D bitmapped) graphics onto my screen (in response to (simple) external inputs) with the lowest latency possible (the order of tens of milliseconds) so I can empirically test ...
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How to display an X11 screen from a remote machine? (Alternative to ssh -X)

I am locally on a machine without root rights. X forwarding is disabled. Remotely I am running a process on a machine without a screen, using the Xvfb virtual framebuffer which simulates an X server ...
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Modify start up routine of LXDE using startx command

I have built lxde and fbtft driver for Raspberry Pi using Yocto. In order to correctly start X11 session and dbus, I need to stop the existing one and execute something like: FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 ...
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Changing Xvfb frame buffer resolution while it's running

I run Xvfb with command: Xvfb :1 -screen 0 100x100x16 -fbdir /tmp And it's working fine. I can connect via VNC, and now under /tmp directory I have Xvfb_screen0 binary file. I thought it will act ...
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Can I change the X rotate the xf86-video-fbdev during execution?

Below is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/1-fbdev.conf. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/1-fbdev.conf Section "Device" Identifier "LCD" Driver "fbdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" Option "Rotate" "UD" EndSection I ...
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The window would like the X- represents at the same time in two frame buffers

I'm using the two frame buffer. /dev/fb0: 1024x768 (LCD) /dev/fb1: 1920x1080 (HDMI) I want to be the same content simultaneously on two frame buffer output. Is there any way ?
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How can I move framebuffer or X screen relative position?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I had fixed boot screen using this nice solution. Since that time I have been looking for the way to move framebuffer in virtual console slightly to the right ...
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