Re: Help with X on iBook?

[Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:26:44AM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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."

Sure, but it wouldn't be accepted well upstream, they even have problems with
fbdev these days, ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther