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  <H2><A NAME="1"></A>1. Introduction</H2>
<p>The frame buffer device provides an abstraction for the graphics hardware. It
represents the frame buffer of some video hardware and allows application
software to access the graphics hardware through a well-defined interface, so
the software doesn't need to know anything about the low-level (hardware
register) stuff.</p>
<p>The device is accessed through special device nodes, usually located in the
/dev directory, i.e. <code>/dev/fb*</code>.</p>


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