From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu May 17 16: 5:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mailin8.bigpond.com (juicer39.bigpond.com [139.134.6.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8108A37B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 16:05:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrin@suresoftware.com) Received: from suresoftware.com ([139.134.4.58]) by mailin8.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDI5QI00.7T9 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 09:11:06 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-205-224.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.205.224]) by mail1.bigpond.com (Claudes-High-Frequency-MailRouter V2.9c 1/5575520); 18 May 2001 09:05:42 Message-ID: <3B045947.49DDF26C@suresoftware.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:05:43 +1000 From: Darrin Smart Organization: Sure Software Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Direct access to VGA card Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi All, I have a rather specialised application that wants to talk directly to the video card. Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to take control of the console and switch to a non-text mode, in a similar way to XFree86? Is it possible to hook into the card's vertical retrace interrupt without writing a driver? Thanks. - Darrin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message