Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: =?us-ascii?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, (Andrzej Bialecki) <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour Message-ID: <XFMail.980224115009.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199802241022.LAA01674@sos.freebsd.dk>
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On 24-Feb-98 Søren Schmidt wrote: ... > It will only work on a std VGA card in a std mode. All moderne video > cards > demands specific programming (or what do you think the thousands of lines > of code in Xfree86 does :) ) > > So your answer is it will not work most of the time, if at all. My ignorance shows all the time. When the system boots, something does something to the video card to make it go into a sane VGA mode. My ignorant assumption is that this something can be emulated/repeated with software in kernel mode. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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