Re: Help with X on iBook?
Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:49:14PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > >
> > > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd know a way... the same way that the fbdev drivers use.
> > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep machine to see what i mean
> > >
> > > I see. Unfortunately, this has the same 'problems' as the fbdev approach
> > > (Linux only, /proc must be mounted, ...)
> >
> > Well, how does the kernel do ? Just do the same in XFree...
>
> Xfree86 has to run on a wide varietyy of Oses, some you even never heard of
> maybe, so you cannot just assume you are using linux.
If you were to snip the text well, you wouldn't have had to write this
email, and me to answer it.
I also said "It wouldn't need /proc and would work on all the PowerMac
Unices."
BTW, I guess that the information comes from OF, we'd need some OS
specific code to retrieve this information... I guess
Cheers
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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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