CLUSTER DRIVER-FRAMEBUFFER-VIDEO · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2019-09-10

X11 dummy video drivers

This cluster comprises X11 video drivers that provide a dummy virtual framebuffer for headless systems without dedicated graphics acceleration. The pre-index dated history is thin: one entry in September 2019, then two entries each in June and August 2025 (five dated entries total). All members show negligible public traction (0 stars), with xlibre-video-fbdev, xlibre-video-dummy, and xf86-video-dummy-with-vt leading the activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2019: 1JUN 2025: 2AUG 2025: 2
SEP 2019AUG 2025

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01xlibre-video-fbdev0★1 moliveopen sourceX11 video driver that provides framebuffer device support for systems without dedicated graphics acceleration.
  2. 02xlibre-video-dummy0★1 moliveopen sourceX11 video driver that provides a dummy virtual framebuffer device for headless systems.
  3. 03xf86-video-dummy-with-vt0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceX.org dummy video driver providing a virtual framebuffer with VT allocation.
  4. 04xlibre-video-dummy-bin0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceX11 video driver that provides a dummy virtual framebuffer device for headless systems.
  5. 05xlibre-video-fbdev-bin0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceX11 video driver that provides framebuffer device support for systems without dedicated graphics acceleration.