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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 31), Dmitry Frolov said:
> * Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> [28.01.2006 13:09]:
> 
> > Is there any equivalent to the Linux Real Mode interface in FreeBSD?  I
> > would like to port a program called atitvout to FreeBSD, but it uses
> > calls to the vesa bios in real mode on the x86 arch.  I can't seem to
> > find out how to do this in FreeBSD.
> 
> LRMI <http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi> should work
> on FreeBSD since version 0.8. And here is my FreeBSD/NetBSD patch
> for atitvout (with instructions inside):
> 
> http://kaya.nov.net/frol/patches/atitvout-0.4-bsd2.diff

If this is anything like vm86 mode, check out the i386_vm86 manpage.

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