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From: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Give me the means to run realmode code from within the kernel, and I'll
> teach syscons how to use it :)
> 
How does X11 do it? svgalib is supposed to be based on X11, but it seems
like they nuked everything related with coherence and stability.

BTW: the port for NetBSD's dosemu doesn't use svgalib (don't know about
the linux version), maybe they don't support SVGA for the same reasons.

	Pedro.


> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
>                 Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
> ..