Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:54:08PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I ran "X -version" on my Debian system on which I have applied the
> "go-woody" script to move from potato to woody. I got a result that
> puzzles me.
>
> The "X -version" output contains a line
> "Operating System: Linux 2.4.13 i686 [ELF]".
> But when I run "uname -r", I get "2.2.19", and /proc/version contains
> "Linux version 2.2.19 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Jun 9 13:04:06 EST 2001"
>
> Should go-woody have installed kernel 2.4.13?
I haven't checked the script, but distribution upgrades generally don't
upgrade the kernel automatically. The 'X -version' output is probably
describing the system on which X was built.
> Did it? How can I determine, really, what kernel I am using?
'uname -r' is always correct.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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