From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 23:53:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA12087 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA12078 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA20230 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:53:23 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id IAA01974; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:46:16 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:46:16 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen flickering References: <199702201042.VAA30639@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199702201204.NAA02849@ravenock.cybercity.dk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C199702201204=2ENAA02849=40ravenock=2Ecybercity=2Edk=3E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3B_from_S=F8ren_Schmidt_on_Feb_20=2C_1997_13=3A04=3A02_+?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?0100?= Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Søren Schmidt wrote: > I'd like to do it this way, but lots of the crappy VGA cards thats > out there (and often its the same ones that produces most of > the annoing jitter) doesn't support an interrupt, and some only > allows using NMI. Huh, NMI? I doubt this. NMI is only available as then IOCHCK signal, and lowering it will usually cause a panic (or drop you into DDB). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)