Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 08:27:13 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reset screen hardware? Message-ID: <199708150627.IAA17998@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199708140837.RAA00646@papillon.lemis.com> from "grog@lemis.com" at "Aug 14, 97 05:37:34 pm"
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In reply to grog@lemis.com who wrote:
>
> Alfred: Mike's right. It's a pain, and also a can of worms. But he's
> wrong when he says it can't be done. If you want to do yourself and
> everybody else a service, investigate the probe and reset code in
> XFree86 and figure out how to cannibalize it to save the board state
> (it makes sense to have this done during boot at probe time) and
> create an ioctl to use this information to reset to text mode.
I can be done, sure, but it will NEVER get into the official kernel
like that, I'll fight that tooth and nail. We wont have hundreds of
K's of code like that in kernel space.
There is hope however, there is work underways to do this via the
video BIOS, and that's a totally different story...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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