From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 26 9: 7:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles522.castles.com [208.214.165.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD5614BED for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04237; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910261556.IAA04237@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA , Mike Nowlin , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:42:38 +0200." <3815AFCE.DB4ECE98@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:56:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > This is very interesting. Then, the conclusion is that this problem > should be redirected to the XFree86 people: perhaps, they could write > a utility (probably adapted to each Xserver) that restores the [S]VGA > registers. Perhaps it would be better for the XFree86 people to concentrate on not = having their servers crash at all? Your proposal seems like such a = waste of time. 8( (It's also still clear that you don't understand the situation; please = stop irritating those of us that do and take our word for it - what you = want is simply not achievable.) -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message