Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:46:17 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? Message-ID: <199901270746.IAA33993@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199901262329.PAA19662@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 26, 1999 3:29: 6 pm"
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It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > > > It sure wouuld be nice if DDB could restore the video back to VGA. > > Anybody have any ideas? > > Please search the archives for discussions of this. The short answer > is "it can't be done". Erhm, well, it CAN be done, but not easily. I have started on a X server that uses libvgl as the underlying graphics "glue". Since libvgl can (well my local version) use the BIOS to switch to hires VESA modes, the kernel "knows" how to get out of graphics mode when something bad happens. However you can be screwed so bad that even this doesn't work. The other downside is that such an Xserver redefines slow... - Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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