Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:44:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Bug" in syscons? Message-ID: <199511160744.IAA11687@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199511152304.AA228256671@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Nov 15, 95 03:04:30 pm
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As Darryl Okahata wrote: > > The patch was developed by reading the pcvt source and checking the > changes against some slightly vague info in two different books (I've > forgotten the exact titles, but one was a book on VGA graphics > programming by Michael Abrash). You must state which portion of pcvt you've been reading: pcvt has some basic knowledge of different SVGA's, in order to allow for 132-column operation. So pcvt sometimes performs hardware-specific additional operations. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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