Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] fast franebuffer reading and writing

[James S. <jam...@op...>]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 18:08 -0600, Nathan King wrote:
> What's the preferred way to read a block of pixels from the screen?
> I'm developing something like a remote desktop app, and I haven't
> found a whole lot of documentation on this. Right now I'm opening
> the /dev/fb0 device and accessing it by means of lseek/read, file
> descriptor style. This seems reasonably fast but I feel there must be
> a better way.

Can you mmap /dev/fb0?

Regards,
James.