From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 02:54:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28687 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 02:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.eu.org (valerian.glou.eu.org [193.56.58.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28676 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 02:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.eu.org (8.7.3/8.7.1/951117) with UUCP id LAA00735; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.glou.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id LAA04285; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:26:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199608290926.LAA04285@tetard.glou.eu.org> Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? To: durham@durham (Jim Durham) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:26:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (hackers) In-Reply-To: from Jim Durham at "Aug 28, 96 11:17:13 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Durham écrit / writes: > > For the adventurous look at the function set_mode() in syscons.c > > that together with a description on how the videomodes are > > stored in the BIOS will do the trick. I even remember seeing a little > > util for DOS(I know...) that allowed one to play with the video regs > > "online". That would give the values you need... > > OK.. I looked at it earlier. I'll look again. I looked -- it's waaay beyond my competence :-) > Any suggestions on where documentation on BIOS video modes may > be lurking on the net? > > Of course, the absolute topper would be to hack the BIOS rom so that > it natively boots to something your monitor can handle! ;-) . Well, a shareware BIOS (Dr.Bios) exists out there -- does it come with sources ? -- Phil -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]- -[ "To kärve or nøt to kärve, that is the qvestion..." -- My sister ]-