There doesn't seem to be any info out there on the output format of an FB dump, apart from people saving the files with a .raw extension. Maybe do this and try it in gimp?
Came across this, may be of use: http://www.sfires.net/fbshot/ -Oli >===== Original Message From james amen atayi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 14:16 schrieben Sie: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >well, > >The thing is that I know it must be possible to do it. Commercial products do >the same job. Camtasia for example records on windows the screen. I can >allready do it using xwd or other tools to make the screenshots. The problem >is that with these tools the mousepointer disappears when >a screenshot is made. The user can no more work properly. So I'm thinking in >the way to do it as the VESA driver refresh the screen.Just send the >framebuffer output, in this case not to the display but into a file with a >very simple command like <cp framebuffer file>. I want to use >for this example the VESA framebuffer that is fb0. (path /dev/fb0). But it is >not working properly. >The file I create is very big a can't be displayed. > >here how I'm processing. > >[begin of code] >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cp /dev/fb0 t1 >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dir t1 >-rw-r----- 1 user users 33554432 2003-07-11 14:35 t1 >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> display t1 >display: Incorrect image header in file (t1). >[end of code] > >Any idea or comment? > > >thanks > > >James > >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
