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Re: xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v1 for powerpc at X Strike Force repository



On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 5) What is the canonical way of saying in shell:
> >    "if using_fbcon; then"?
> >    (Probably something to do with /proc.)
> 
> /proc/fb contains the list of available framebuffer devices. Beware that
> "UseFBDev" doesn't work with generic ones like OFfb, vesafb, vgafb, are there
> more?

s/vgafb/vga16fb/g

And there also exists a vga256fb, which does emulate a real cfb8 frame buffer.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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