Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:04:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour Message-ID: <199802241904.MAA09163@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980224111015.22979A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Feb 24, 98 11:13:16 am
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> > The video BIOS ROM contains the table of STANDARD register values only. > > We cannot know which additional registers should be set to what value. > > Ok. Call me stubborn, but why can't we just write the STANDARD register > values corresponding to the initial state of the card, and if the screen > is still garbled, well <shrug> - at least we tried... But, my point is (or > maybe I'm still wrong), that *most of the time* this will restore the card > to some usable state... Because video modes on any accelerator card will be a combination of standard and non-standard register values, and it is possible to actually smoke hardware by having a bad combination of settings (Diamond used to be a victim of this on occasion). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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