From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 06:02:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18247 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 06:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18241 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 06:02:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA96415; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:02:56 GMT Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:02:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Sren Schmidt cc: mike@smith.net.au, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? In-Reply-To: <199901271345.OAA34655@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Sren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, 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". > > > > I don't understand why we can't use VM86 bios calls to switch modes these > > days. Mind you, I don't really understand the VM86 code. > > Short version: > > Modern Xservers puts the cards into accelerated modes, and the BIOS > dont know how to restore those kind of fancy things, they only know > how to deal with "after hardware rest" state of affairs, and modes > they have setup themselves. Lazy bios writers. They build the hardware but can't be bothered to write decent firmware for it. Grumble. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message