From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 26 10:59:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3467C14F20 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA16813; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:59:06 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3815EBEA.77EE6A52@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:59:06 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a desirable fetaure: syscons reset utility References: <199910261556.IAA04237@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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( Xservers are *very* complex. Sure, it would be better to have Perfect Xservers thar never crash. Maybe, this goal will be achieved. I don't think so, because new graphic cards will be always appearing, having an initial unstable support by the XFree86 servers. While waiting for that Happy Day of the Perfect Xservers, these will be crashing. > > (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.) > I *understand* the situation: I *understand* that you have a natural tendency towards irritation. And I *understand* (after the clear explanation of the VGA register trouble by Kazu) that this problem cannot be solved in the syscons/vga driver, so I DON'T WANT THAT, OK? I only asked for that type of solution in my _first_ message. Please, the next time that you want to suggest (or affirm) that someone is an ignorant or even an idiot, read the messages from that person again and think about it twice. Thanks. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.org Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message