Re: showstoppers when moving from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

[Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Dieter.Friedrich@uni-konstanz.de>]

Hendrik Sattler schrieb am Freitag, 26. November 2004 um 16:14:43 +0100:
> Am Freitag, 26. November 2004 08:44 schrieb Joerg Friedrich:
> > root@ford-prefect:~# grep -i "Elite 3D" /proc/fb
> > root@ford-prefect:~# egrep -i "Elite 3D" /proc/fb
> > root@ford-prefect:~# cat /proc/fb | egrep -i "Elite 3D"
> > root@ford-prefect:~# cat -s /proc/fb | egrep -i "Elite 3D"
> > 0 Elite 3D
> > root@ford-prefect:~# cat -s /proc/fb | grep -i "Elite 3D"
> > 0 Elite 3D
> >
> > I need to use "cat -s" otherwise it doesn't work
> 
> Off-topic here but strange. What does the whole file with "cat /proc/fb" look 
> like"?
> BTW: /proc/fb exists on linux-2.4.x, too, so why not dump dmsg and only use 
> that file?

Because under 2.4 /proc/fb is populated _after_ afbinit is run


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