On May 8,  2:25pm, der.hans wrote:

> > I think what you are looking for is the framebuffer
> > and i think it was /dev/fbdev of /dev/fb0,1,2 or
> 
> I think it was something besides the framebuffer, though. I also need
> something for when the framebuffer isn't enabled.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I just noticed it at some point and thought it was cool. Now I semi-need
> it and wish I'd looked into it ;-).

Are you making screen shots?

If you're doing it in X, you can always use xwd to get a dump of
an X window.

-- 
Kevin Buettner
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