Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:45:14 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? Message-ID: <199901271345.OAA34655@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901271302530.95594-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jan 27, 1999 1: 4:19 pm"
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It seems Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > It sure wouuld be nice if DDB could restore the video back to VGA. > > > Anybody have any ideas? > > > > Please search the archives for discussions of this. The short answer > > is "it can't be done". > > I don't understand why we can't use VM86 bios calls to switch modes these > days. Mind you, I don't really understand the VM86 code. Short version: Modern Xservers puts the cards into accelerated modes, and the BIOS dont know how to restore those kind of fancy things, they only know how to deal with "after hardware rest" state of affairs, and modes they have setup themselves. - Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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