Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:18:27 +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: <199901271418.PAA34734@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901271402140.95594-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Jan 27, 1999 2: 2:56 pm"
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It seems Doug Rabson wrote: > > > 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. Well, they do, it comes as a Winslows driver :( (and before Terry^H^H^H^H^Hanyone jumps up and suggests we use those, forget it, I've looked at it and my head still hurts) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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