Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Screen Capturing

[Abhilash <abh...@av...>]

Hello,

Thank you very much.
Let me check this.

Thank you,
Abhilash.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <ge...@li...>
To: "Abhilash" <abh...@av...>
Cc: "Linux Frame Buffer Device Development"
<lin...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Screen Capturing


> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Abhilash wrote:
> > I need to capture the screen .For that I use mirror driver in Windows
for
> > capturing screen.
> > ie, its basically overloading the driver functions.
> >
> > So in case of Linux, is there any method like this or which is the best
> > method?
> > In Xlib there are some functions to capture screen and also heard abt
VESA
> > which is better?
>
> If you are using a frame buffer device, you can capture the contents of
> /dev/fb*. Either read from /dev/fb*, or mmap() it. The data you receive
are in
> the native format of the graphics chip. For CLUT modes, you have to use an
> ioctl() to get the colormap.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
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>
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