From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 17:39:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19323 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19318 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA15762; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:08:23 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807070038.KAA15762@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Mike Smith 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:58:12 MST." <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:08:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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