From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 7:27:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AB41527C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11748; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001241535.HAA11748@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: int10? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 02:24:45 PST." <200001241024.CAA03909@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:35:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message