ioctl 0x7667 in Xpmac

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 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)

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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