From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 00:50:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA26822 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:50:04 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26816 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:50:02 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA21521; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:27:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509120757.RAA21521@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cons25 and vt100 To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:27:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: partek@indecent.com, terry@lambert.org, julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509120111.SAA14575@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 11, 95 06:11:25 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 698 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > I have a Cirrus Logic 5426/8(clgd5428) and that's what pcvt reports on > > bootup. > > 8-|. I have no idea how it knows that. It probably searches the VGA ROM region for match strings. It's the only way to reasonably reliably detect video cards. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[