**Xfbdev** is a display server for the X Window System Protocol Version 11 that that uses the framebuffer provided by the Linux framebuffer device. It works in x86_32 and x86_64 architectures. Xvesa doesn't use configuration file like Xorg. Xvesa -display :0 Xvesa -force Xvesa -videoTest Shortkeys: Ctrl-Alt+Backspace - close Xserver Ctrl+Alt+F1 * hardware acceleration could be achevied if your kernel driver supports your GPU * it doesn't support DPMS * only supports Latin-1 keyboard keymaps Xfbdev server was written by Keith Packard. in order to have working framebuffer you need to add bootcode to you Linux bootloader. vga=ask (you will choose screen resolution) vga=0x311 (640x480x16 vga=786 If you don't have /dev/fb0, thit means framebuffer was not turn on.