From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 18 22:04:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10045 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 22:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09969; Mon, 18 May 1998 22:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00335; Tue, 19 May 1998 00:03:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805190503.AAA00335@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: People having problems with X windows? In-Reply-To: <199805190432.OAA18184@cain.gsoft.com.au> from Daniel O'Connor at "May 19, 98 02:02:12 pm" To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 00:03:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor said: > > > It seems that I'll need to supply a system call or ioctl or something > > that will allow for reconfig of the CPU registers. The new P6 processors > > allow for easier control, but with the P6 and earlier PII processors, > > I'll have to do an IPI. I'll put this on my list (and am willing to > > accept ideas from other OSen that you support, to help minimize support > > issues for you.) > Well, AFAIK Linux has support for it know, as I was reading that someone had > given instructions on what regions to set for WC when using a 3Dfx card. > I don't have anymore info tho :( > I'll take a look at their API, and if it seems okay, I'll replicate it. (No sense in being different, just to be different :-)). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message