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Re: How do I discover the X version I'm running?



On Friday 31 May 2002 01:54 pm, 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"
>

2.4.13 refers to the system that your version of x was built on. uname -r 
gives you the kernel version you're running. 

ben


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