I think what you are looking for is the framebuffer and i think it was /dev/fbdev of /dev/fb0,1,2 or something like that. I dont know what the format is in or anything though. I have started exploreing into this at one time and never got very far. Hope that helps some. Bill W >From: "der.hans" >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >To: quatsch >Subject: cp /dev/video or some such >Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 23:31:22 -0700 (MST) > >moin, moin, > >I've heard it's possible to make a copy of what's going out to the video >card via the command line, e.g. scriptable :). I don't remember what the >/dev/thingy was, though that enabled this. This was long before I ever >heard of the framebuffer driver, but doesn't mean that it didn't involve >it. > >Anyway, anyone know what I'm talking about and how to make a copy of >what's coming up on the screen in both terminal and X mode? > >Part 2 is that this picture isn't exactly jpg or png, so how does one then >convert it to something displayable in a common graphics program. Eventual >goal is to shove stuff in html and print. Some of this is from before the >OS is installed, so xgrab and friends aren't great answers. > >danke, > >der.hans >-- ># der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.OpNIX.com ># Magic is science unexplained. - der.hans > > >_______________________________________________ >Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com