Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:02:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Sren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> 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: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901271402140.95594-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199901271345.OAA34655@freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Sren Schmidt wrote: > 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. Lazy bios writers. They build the hardware but can't be bothered to write decent firmware for it. Grumble. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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