Bug#164316: acknowledged by developer (closing spurious bug report)
On Sam, 2002-10-12 at 18:38, Dale Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:33:25AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System elucidated:
> >
> > Closing the bug for the reasons discussed by Michel D=E4nzer.
> >
> > A "BIOS" is a PC-hardware specific thing.
> >
> > PowerPC-specific peripherals don't have "BIOS"es.
>
> Then I might wonder why does Xfree86 even check for it on PowerPC? It
> wasn't like I told it to check for a BIOS, the error message is
> misleading, at least.
It's not an error, just a warning; someone might want to use a card with
a VGA BIOS ROM in a powerpc box.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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