proc_fb(5)

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version 6.20 · 10 versions
, in arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable

✨ proc_fb(5) ✨

okay bestie, so this one is a lil page from the File Formats Manual section of the Linux man-pages, and it's honestly short but she's iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

/proc/fb — frame buffer

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

  • /proc/fb — this is where you get your frame buffer information, and the big caveat is that it only shows up when CONFIG_FB is defined during kernel compilation 🫶
fr fr, if CONFIG_FB wasn't set when your kernel got built, don't come looking for this file and then be confused — she's simply not there 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • proc(5) — go read her, she's the main character of /proc lore 👑

mwah 💖 that's the whole page, no cap — she's a short one but every bit of her slays.

this lil rewrite comes to you from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08 — bestie, write it down, cite it right, and go check your kernel config 🌈⭐

📦 where this page comes from
  • arch rolling: man-pages 6.20-1 · BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND BSD-4-Clause-UC AND GPL-1.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-linking-exception AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Public-Domain AND LicenseRef-UltraPermissive AND Linux-man-pages-1-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para AND Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var AND MIT AND Spencer-94
  • nixpkgs unstable: man-pages 6.20
  • 📜 the page's license: GPL-3.0-or-later
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