fbset is a tool used for troubleshooting in forums and mailing lists. Google
hits that use it are useless on openSUSE, because it was dropped from standard
repos roughly 3 years ago. Installed from a discontinued repo shows:
# rpm -qi fbset
Name : fbset
Version : 2.1
Release : 938.1.1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Sun Dec 27 03:43:26 2015
Group : System/Console
Size : 154781
License : GPL-2.0+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Sat Jan 26 10:54:25 2013, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : fbset-2.1-938.1.1.src.rpm
Build Date : Sat Jan 26 10:54:03 2013
Build Host : build06
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://users.telenet.be/geertu/Linux/fbdev/
Summary : Framebuffer Configuration Tool
Description :
FBSet can query and change console framebuffer settings.
Some framebuffers do not support this, such as the VESA framebuffer
"vesafb".
# rpm -q --changelog fbset | head -n##
* Thu Feb 16 2012 rschweikert@suse.com
- place binaries in /usr tree (UsrMerge project)
* Fri Sep 30 2011 uli@suse.com
- cross-build fix: use %__cc, %configure macros
Can it be brought back? Fedora and Debian still have it. From their changelogs:
* Fri Feb 23 2018 Florian Weimer - 2.1-45
- Use LDFLAGS from redhat-rpm-config (via %set_build_flags)
- Remove "rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}"
- Remove "%defattr(-,root,root)"
- Add gcc build requirement
* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1-44
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Aug 02 2017 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.1-43
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
Get:1 gzip: fbset 2.1-29 Changelog
fbset (2.1-29) unstable; urgency=medium
* QA upload.
* Update to Linux kernel 4.10-rc4:
- debian/doc/kernel-doc/: Sync.
- debian/patches/01_kernel_fb.h.patch: Likewise.
- debian/modes/fb.modes.viafb: Likewise.
* Now using Standards-Version 3.9.8 (no changes needed).
* Switch Vcs-Browser to a cgit URL.
* Use https for hadrons.org URLs.
* Switch debian/copyright to machine-readable format 1.0.
* Switch to the dpkg makefile fragments in debian/rules.
* Enable all hardening flags.
-- Guillem Jover Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:11:33 +0100
fbset (2.1-28) unstable; urgency=low
* Orphan package, set maintainer to Debian QA Group.
* Switch to debhelper compatibility level 9.
* Now using Standards-Version 3.9.5 (no changes needed).
-- Guillem Jover Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:54:35 +0100
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