From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 11:43:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22545 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA22529 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 12257 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 1998 19:50:09 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802241022.LAA01674@sos.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: =?us-ascii?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, (Andrzej Bialecki) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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