Bug#182704: Debconf configuration sets use_fbdev without asking, making X unstartable

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Don, 2003-02-27 at 21:48, Daniel Burrows wrote: 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:51:02PM +0100, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > On Don, 2003-02-27 at 13:26, Daniel Burrows wrote: 
> > > 
> > >   It seems like this happens because /proc/fb exists, and
> > > [ -n "$(cat /proc/fb)" ] fails.  On my computer, /proc/fb is a zero-byte
> > > file, which is probably why the test fails:
> > > 
> > > torrent.burrows.local:~> wc -c /proc/fb
> > >       0 /proc/fb
> > 
> > Probably not:
> > 
> > daenzer@thor> wc -c /proc/fb                                           ~
> >       0 /proc/fb
> > daenzer@thor> cat /proc/fb                                             ~
> > 0 M9 Lf
> 
>   My, that's messed up..anyway, maybe I should have used the example
> where I tested [ -n $(cat /proc/fb) ] and it failed.  How's this?
> torrent:~> cat /proc/fb     
> torrent:~> od /proc/fb
> 0000000
> torrent:~> cat /proc/fb | wc -c
>       0

Weird. Anyway, the test certainly isn't adequate because Option
"UseFBDev" doesn't work with generic framebuffer devices like vesafb,
OFfb, ...


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