On 12/04/2003 12:06 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Without the piping, it starts to do the same thing that happened on my 8.2 box, writing the first group of output lines on the same line, but then printing each supported mode on a separate line.
I think what you are seeing is the scanning of the cards capabilities, which produces some writing all on the same line (same for all hwinfo scans). After the scans, it will print out the results on separate lines
I tried again with both grep and less on the 8.2 box, and both those fail as well.
Since you are using the same card in 8.1 which is working (which means the card does support framebuffers), I would suspect an acpi problem with your system in 8.2 that keeps the framebuffer from working in 8.2, thus the failure to print out any capabilities. If it is a pci video card, maybe a boot line such as pci=noacpi would allow it to work, or acpi=off, but if splash is all that is not working properly, it may not be worth fixing. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.