Command Line Interfaces

[NoOp]

On 10/18/2007 10:10 AM, Pete Holsberg wrote:
> NoOp has written on 10/17/2007 8:22 PM:
> 
>> On 10/17/2007 05:09 PM, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>> NoOp has written on 10/11/2007 2:19 PM:
>>>> I have 2.6.22-14-386 on 3 seperate machines w/different bios & video
>>>> cards; all show framebuffer outputs for:
>>>>
>>>> $ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
>>> After providing the proper password, I see outputs with CRs but no LFs!!
>>> And no amount of redirection will capture those lines!!
>>>
>>
>> However, you should also be able to redirect by:
>>
>> $ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer > framebuff.txt
>> [$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer > <output file name>]
>>
>> and the output will be in framebuff.txt in the same directory where you
>> ran the command.
> It didn't happen!

Then something else is wrong. The '>' in the command will cause the
output to go to a file (<output file name>).

>> One other thing to be aware of; when you do an xorg.server reconfig
>> there is a section for using framebuffer or not. You might want to run
>> 'configure-debian'|X11 and see if you have FB turned on or not there.
> I don't have a configure-debian command.

$ sudo apt-get install configure-debian

Then look in Applications|System Tools|Configure-Debian