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diff --git a/misc/fbdump/README b/misc/fbdump/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..1840f205929a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/fbdump/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +fbdump is a simple tool that captures the contents of the visible portion of +the Linux framebuffer device and writes it to the standard output as a PPM +file. In other words, it takes a screenshot of anything running on the +framebuffer. It currently has fairly complete support for packed-pixel +framebuffer types and also works with the VGA16 framebuffer driver. + +To get a popular image format, issue a command like +'fbdump | pnmtopng > shot.png' |