Framebuffer use

This page list some ways to use the framebuffer drivers. All commands are issued from a SSH session.

• Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
• Pygame

X server

Install framebuffer driver

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-fbdev

Create file: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbdev.conf

Section "Device"  
  Identifier "myfb"
  Driver "fbdev"
  Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
EndSection

Start X server

startx

Source: blogpost

Alternative method

FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx

mplayer

WIDTH is the display width.
scale is used because the movie is larger than most small displays. -3 means keep aspect ratio and calculate height.

apt-get install -y mplayer
wget http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mpg

mplayer -nolirc -vo fbdev2:/dev/fb1 -vf scale=WIDTH:-3 test.mpg

Image viewer

apt-get -y install fbi
wget http://art110.wikispaces.com/file/view/Mystery-100x100.jpg/30649064/Mystery-100x100.jpg

fbi -d /dev/fb1 -T 1 -noverbose -a Mystery-100x100.jpg

Console

Use display as the primary console.
If a keyboard is plugged in after power on, a reboot may be necessary.

# Map console 1 to framebuffer 1, login screen will show up on the display
con2fbmap 1 1

con2fbmap 1
console 1 is mapped to framebuffer 1

# Revert
con2fbmap 1 0