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



On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:00:00AM -0500, David B. Harris wrote:
> 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 :)

Er, yes, that'll do. Wonder if it's a module? (Clearly I don't know a whole
lot about LPP).

-- 
Daniel Stone		<daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net> <daniel@kabuki.sfarc.net>



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