From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 27 07:49:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00350 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay01.indigo.ie (relay01.indigo.ie [194.125.133.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA00331 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsmart@kira.team400.ie) From: nsmart@kira.team400.ie Received: (qmail 25664 messnum 238288 invoked from network[194.125.214.21/pc214-21.indigo.ie]); 27 Jan 1999 15:49:47 -0000 Received: from pc214-21.indigo.ie (HELO kira.team400.ie) (194.125.214.21) by relay01.indigo.ie (qp 25664) with SMTP; 27 Jan 1999 15:49:47 -0000 Message-ID: <36AF3680.18A23F11@kira.team400.ie> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:53:36 +0000 Organization: Trinity Commerce X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to get machine out of hires when it breaks into DDB> ? References: <199901271345.OAA34655@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Hmm, would it be possible for the video driver to give some code to the kernel/a daemon at X11 initialisation which would put the video card back into VGA mode when executed? Regards, Niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message