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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:35:24 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: int10? 
Message-ID:  <200001241535.HAA11748@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 02:24:45 PST." <200001241024.CAA03909@rah.star-gate.com> 

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> 
> Is there a way to initialized a vga card after the system is booted?
> 
> What I am looking for is to initialize a second vga in my
> system so that I can run X in a dual headed configuration
> with XFree86 or to be able to chose which vga card
> to run X with on my system.

The Linux folks claim to be able to work out which VGA card gets 
initialised with an int10 call; you might want to go look how they do it 
- we have more or less equivalent infrastructure so once you've worked 
out how it's done, doing it under FreeBSD should be trivial.

-- 
\\ 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




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