framebuffer not available. How to install the device /dev/fb/0 on Ubuntu?

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Published on 2010-05-21T22:46:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 22:51 UTC
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I am trying to run an application that uses framebuffer on 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu.

All need to do is to install a framebuffer device to get rid of the following error.

/dev/fb/0: No such file or directory
framebuffer not available.
FATAL: no framebuffer available

I googled through and found some resources indicating to do that on Grub2 I got nothing though I followed them seamlessly.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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