On Wed, 26 May 1999, Tom Rini wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

quoted

Can the people responsible for Xpmac please change the error message

| Fatal server error
| ioctl 0x7667 failed: invalid argument.

into

| Fatal server error
| ioctl 0x7667 failed: invalid argument (do you have a PowerMac?).

or something like that.

Many people install LinuxPPC on APUS (the second most popular Linux/PPC
platform these days), and Xpmac is obviously not meant for non-PowerMacs.

It's easy enough to do, but doesn't APUS have a framebuffer? (Currently
if you don't have a readable /dev/fb0, it assumes MkL and uses Xpmac.  A
more elegant fix would be to check machine type and use that to install
Xbh on PReP and ??? on APUS)

Hmmm... APUS does have a frame buffer, but it doesn't have the Pmac
compatibility mode. Since lots of people are complaining, it looks like it does
install Xpmac instead of XF68_FBDev on APUS.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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