Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:08:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: joelh@gnu.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) Message-ID: <199807070038.KAA15762@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:58:12 MST." <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > I was about to continue that paragraph, when the question occurred: > > Are there no other userland programs (besides wine and doscmd) that do > > these ops? > Lots of them; there's plenty of low-speed industrial control > applications that dink the hardware directly courtesy of the IOPL bit. Hmm.. along with anything that uses a 3DFX =) (Well, until the 3dfx driver is ported) I'm just pointing out the important stuff here ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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