From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 23 20:38:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07879 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:38:25 -0800 (PST) (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 UAA07735; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:37:10 -0800 (PST) (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 PAA10430; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:06:27 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199803240436.PAA10430@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , Jonathan Lemon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS calls In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 20:18:27 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:06:26 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA07741 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > eeeiiii haaaa... > hip, hip, hurrayyy!!! > Does it mean there are chances for userland video library supporting > hi-res graphics? :-)) How about making it an LKM? Then the kernel will know how to put the video card back into a sane state when your graphical app crashes.. Gee.. Lets just port the GGI API.. They are working on an X server which uses GGI.. Mmm, no more unreadable kernel messages when your X server crashes.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |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