Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!

["Bob Lounsbury" <boblounsbury@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Peter Rooney <http@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> It's alright to be new.  I was there once, and still feel that way
> sometimes.  One wag on IRC said that linux on powerpc was a continuous
> intelligence test.
>
> to see the contents of a file displayed in the console, use `cat', `more',
> `less', or (much less common) `most'.  Hence, what was meant was,
>
> root@localhost # cat /proc/fb
>
> and report hte contents of the file to the list here.
>
> Peter
> PS. If you accidentally cat a binary file, it might contain codes that the
> terminal will interpret as commands.  Run the `reset' command to recover.

Thanks for the help Peter.

$ cat /proc/fb
0 ATY Rage128
1 VGA16 VGA

Obviously someone knows what that means.

Thanks,
/Bob