open /dev/fb0: No such device

Question

I installed fbi framebuffer to view images on TTY terminals (outside X).

When I do:

fbi image.jpg

it outputs the following error:

open /dev/fb0 no such device

Yet when I run ls /dev/fb*, I can see that I have a directory /dev/fb and a character device /dev/fb0.

Mat · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-16 16:49:39Z

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I found a solution in Ubuntu's FrameBuffer wiki entry. I had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add vga=ask to choose the right resolution on boot.

Now everything works fine.

Mat

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answered Jun 14, 2013 at 23:10

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Thanks. That's how I ended getting Puppy Linux (slacko) to use its main terminal (ctrl alt F1 or exit jwm to command line) to have /dev/fb0 work. I am writing an X program that I wanted to also run outside X and was wondering if puppy had everything or was missing libraries, etc (BTW, I did have to install their -dev package to use gcc tools). Thanks again.
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