From ad71dc81c088e5d004562a4aaa1fea87c1ac58e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Binh Nguyen Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:42:06 -0400 Subject: misc/fbdump: Added (captures the visible portion of framebuffer) Signed-off-by: dsomero --- misc/fbdump/README | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 misc/fbdump/README (limited to 'misc/fbdump/README') diff --git a/misc/fbdump/README b/misc/fbdump/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1840f20592 --- /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' -- cgit v1.2.3