On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Peter Rooney <h...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Bob, > > It's alright to be new. I was there once, and still feel that way > sometimes. One wag on IRC said that linux on powerpc was a continuous > intelligence test. > > to see the contents of a file displayed in the console, use `cat', `more', > `less', or (much less common) `most'. Hence, what was meant was, > > r...@localhost # cat /proc/fb > > and report hte contents of the file to the list here. > > Peter > PS. If you accidentally cat a binary file, it might contain codes that the > terminal will interpret as commands. Run the `reset' command to recover.
Thanks for the help Peter. $ cat /proc/fb 0 ATY Rage128 1 VGA16 VGA Obviously someone knows what that means. Thanks, /Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
