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Re: An ex-Windows, now-Debian newbie comments.



To quote Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.sfarc.net>,
> I have a shit non-fb video card, however a simple test in /proc or
/dev to
> establish whether it's a framebuffer card or not, and then decide
whether
> to boot LPP or plain, could do the trick.

LPP is initialized by the kernel, right as soon as it's done loading. So
if there's going to be a check, it'll have to be from the kernel itself.

Just thought it should be mentioned :)

David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
           Don't panic.

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