From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 11:04:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17530 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17521 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28877; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:04:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd028843; Tue Feb 24 12:04:40 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09163; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:04:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802241904.MAA09163@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Proposed addition to panic() behaviour To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:04:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Feb 24, 98 11:13:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > > The video BIOS ROM contains the table of STANDARD register values only. > > We cannot know which additional registers should be set to what value. > > Ok. Call me stubborn, but why can't we just write the STANDARD register > values corresponding to the initial state of the card, and if the screen > is still garbled, well - at least we tried... But, my point is (or > maybe I'm still wrong), that *most of the time* this will restore the card > to some usable state... Because video modes on any accelerator card will be a combination of standard and non-standard register values, and it is possible to actually smoke hardware by having a bad combination of settings (Diamond used to be a victim of this on occasion). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message